Libby Copeland: The king of doggedness, who excels at biting his lip and biding his time, waits out the last hours guardedly. Onstage, he projects victory. Offstage, he knocks on wood, or more precisely, the woodlike table of his campaign bus. On a plane in Newark, just before taking off for San Diego yesterday, John McCain says he's nervous, in his McCainian way: "I'm always nervous and I'm always superstitious and I'm always a pain in a certain part of the anatomy to most of my friends and associates."
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