1. Campaign Reflections

Christopher Morris / VII for TIME
The long hard-fought Presidential campaigns were marked by vast stretches of downtime, like this moment of respite enjoyed by Cindy McCain in a hotel room in Dallas, Texas. As her husband John worked on a speech, TIME photographer Christopher Morris grabbed this shot of her enjoying a glass of white wine.

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