Behind the scenes of the 2008 presidential campaign

McCain & Obama
John McCain and Barack Obama made their final case to voters as they traveled across the country in the final weekend before the 2008 presidential election.
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Veteran political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin are out with a sweeping account of the 2008 campaign. It's called, "Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime." The two journalists talked about their book at the Commonwealth Club of California.