Mark Halperin's Final Campaign 2008 Report Cards

Mark Halperin grades the players in the 2008 presidential campaign and renders his verdict.

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Tough, clever and fearless, he learned to love (or at least tolerate) life on the road with his candidate. A one-man traveling rapid-response war room who displayed a Rovian instinct for finding his opponent's weakness combined with a sharp Begalian wit. Like Obama, he never got too high or too low, even during tumultuous times.

Grade: A-

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