Palin's $150,000 wardrobe. General Colin Powell endorses Obama. McCain's brother calling 911 to complain about traffic. John McCain defending more red states than anticipated. And now, a recent McCain adviser and Solicitor General in the Reagan administration casts his absentee ballot for Obama. It's just not the best week to be John McCain.
Charles Fried, a Harvard Law professor and conservative thinker, says he cast his absentee ballot this week for Barack Obama. Although it may not be strange this election cycle to see a republican voter or congressman cross party lines to vote for Barack Obama, it gives pause to think that a former McCain adviser would vote for the opponent of the campaign on which he advised.
Fried stated in a letter to Trevor Potter, the General Counsel to the McCain-Palin campaign that the main reason he was casting his vote for Barack Obama was "the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis." Fried also requested that his name was taken off the several Mccain campaign-related committees that his name was attached to on various web sites and information sources.
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