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It’s easy to see how a 21-year member of the U.S. Senate like John McCain, or even a Senate rookie, could regard Wall Street as a mysterious and distant planet.

The Doris Day who is married to Col. Bud Day, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, fighter pilot, Vietnam POW and roommate of John McCain at the Hanoi Hilton.

SEDONA, Arizona On a recent balmy Sunday, John and Cindy McCain hosted the national press corps at their ranch here.

Last week, we wrote about the $3 million loan his campaign took out to keep his campaign afloat in November, putting up its fund-raising lists and a life insurance policy as collateral.

Consider us as skeptical as everyone else about yesterday’s nonbombshell in the New York Times that John McCain was once friendly with a female lobbyist he did no favors for.

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While the picture-perfect Mrs. McCain regularly introduces her husband at campaign events, she often retreats after her duties are done, donning her fully loaded iPod and typing away on her silver BlackBerry.

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WASHINGTON Sen. John McCain’s media team has resigned, an indication that a campaign shake-up two weeks ago is continuing to backfire and further imperil the Arizona Republican’s presidential candidacy.

Despite significant evidence to the contrary, the McCain campaign continues to assert that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told the federal government “thanks but no thanks” to the now-famous bridge to an island in her home state.

After Monday’s 504-point plummet in the Dow Jones index, it gained back 141 points yesterday.

After Senator McCain suggested that the “fundamentals of the economy are strong,” Senator Obama mocked Mr. McCain’s view of “the fundamentals.”

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Col. Bud Day with John McCain at a campaign stop in Pensacola, Fla., in January.

Indeed, on the evidence of the past few days, Senators McCain and Obama would appear to know more about Mars than they do about financial markets.

We’ll leave it to the debates to elicit just what each Senator regards as the “economic fundamentals” in a $13 trillion economy, but for our money the notable thing about the exchange was how fast John McCain let his opponent’s sarcasm push him off message, such as it is.

Democratic candidate Barack Obama used a town-hall style event in Flint, Mich., to attack Gov. Palin over the “Bridge to Nowhere” debate.

Political ad-makers Russ Schriefer and Stuart Stevens, veterans of President Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, on Monday emailed the new campaign manager lobbyist and longtime McCain adviser Rick Davis to say that they were quitting.

It involves what happened to him after escaping from a North Vietnamese prison during the war.

… Senator McCain should bring his worthy tax-cut plan out of hiding, and if anything refine it for immediate impact with an across-the-board income tax reduction.

And troubling because it is clear that Mr. McCain is one of the most private individuals to run for president in history.

Gov. Palin, who John McCain named as his running mate less than two weeks ago, quickly adopted a stump line bragging about her opposition to the pork-barrel project Sen. McCain routinely decries.

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Having decided not to accept public financing during the primary, the possibility of going up against Barack Obama in the general election is a different story.

He had survived in prison on the hope that one day he would return to the United States and be able to fly again.

As the wife of the expected Republican nominee, Mrs. McCain will face intensifying scrutiny.

The campaign applied to the Federal Election Commission for matching funds, and once that application was approved went to a bank and opened a line of credit based on the possibility that they might someday reapply for matching funds if the campaign faltered.

The Drug Enforcement Administration began an investigation of Mrs. McCain in 1994, but she avoided prosecution by paying a fine, performing community service in a soup kitchen and joining Narcotics Anonymous.

His opponent, meanwhile, stayed on message, explaining Monday’s events with the sort of dogged persistence reflected in the headline across the front page of yesterday’s New York Times: “Wall St. in Worst Loss Since ‘01 Despite Reassurances by Bush.”

Barack Obama won’t do it, so Senator McCain has a chance to step forward and defend the purchasing power of middle-class budgets against inflation in the prices they pay every trip to the supermarket or gas station.