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Jacob Weisberg is chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and author of The Bush Tragedy. Follow him at http://twitter.com/jacobwe.
Photographs on Slate's home page of: John McCain by Eric Thayer/Getty Images for Meet the Press; Barack Obama Win McNamee/Getty Images. Photograph of John McCain and Barack Obama by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
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