“Citing his past as prologue, John McCain called for a future of nonpartisan reform in Washington, promised to keep the country secure and urged Americans to ‘fight with me,’ as he accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., Thursday night. In wrapping up a four-day convention interrupted at its start by Hurricane Gustav and electrified by surprise vice presidential pick Sarah Palin, a vital political newcomer with her own reform-oriented narrative, the four-term Arizona senator had a message for his own partisans and Democrats alike about what he intends to do if elected.” (09/05/08)