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Race for the presidency
The trips, the speeches, and the moments of Decision ’08. A look at the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain.   View slideshow:
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TODAY goes backstage with the 2008 presidential candidates and their staffs to capture the long bus rides, the strategizing, the raw and the exciting moments that will give voters real insight into who these men and women really are, and how they would lead this country.

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