McCain Leans Toward a Compromise on Offshore Drilling
Aug 4th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: Election 2008The New York Times: A day after Senator Barack Obama said he would consider supporting broad energy legislation that would permit some of the offshore oil drilling he had previously opposed, an aide to Senator John McCain said Sunday that he too might support such a compromise package.
But there was little other common ground on Sunday between representatives of the two presidential candidates after a deeply contentious week that saw tough attack ads from the McCain camp, an argument over the role of race in the general election campaign, and the apparent evaporation of Mr. Obama’s lead in a daily tracking poll.