At TAPPED Paul Waldman hails this Arizona Republic piece questioning MCain’s “maverick” credentials and then asks:
One thing I’ve noticed lately is that there are a bunch of Chicago reporters (like Lynn Sweet and Jim Warren, for instance) who have become regulars on cable TV, presumably because they know a lot about Barack Obama. But the reporters who have known John McCain the longest and know him the best — the ones from Arizona — are nowhere to be seen. Why do you think that is?
Clearly, we’re supposed to impute some pro-McCain or pro-conservative bias here. But it’s much more likely that the truth is that while the BHO vs HRC stramash continues no-one gives a damn about John McCain. Now of course it’s true that McCain gets a very generous press (partly because – canny man! – he gives the press greater access than do other candidates) but it’s also true that November is a very long way away.
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