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McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was buoyant in his assessment of the state of the race as it enters its final weekend.
In a McCain campaign conference call today, Davis said he was “jazzed up” and assured reporters that “we are witnessing, I believe, probably one of the greatest comebacks since John McCain won the primary.”

Ben Smith at Politico takes us back to June 2008, when McCain campaign manager Rick Davis laid out an ambitious electoral strategy that included, among other things, a push to take such states as Connecticut.
For comparison, I dug up a presentation (PDF) by Obama campaign manager David Plouffe from the same month.
The result: The Obama [...]

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, in a conference call with reporters today, boldly confronted the big issue on the minds of American voters: Sen. Barack Obama’s connection to the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN.)
However, after he and Missouri’s Republican Gov. Matt Blunt finished denouncing ACORN as a “fraudulent, law-breaking organization” — for [...]

In the embarrassment that just won’t go away, Newsweek reports that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis — despite numerous comments to the contrary — remains an officer at the lobbying firm that bears his name, Davis Manafort.

McCain senior campaign adviser Steve Schmidt had his response ready to go when reporters inevitably questioned campaign adviser Rick Davis’ $35,000 per month former position as the president of an organization set up by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to stave off increased federal regulation, as reported today by The New York Times.
Without [...]