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I am aware that pretty much every late night talk show host under the sun has made of the fun of the clip by now, ...
I have seen far more videos of his brother making mistakes on the campaign trail who, as we all know, was elected president. In 2008, McCain was in fifth place in the Iowa caucus. As you will remember, he still became the Republican presidential candidate that year.And that's how campaigns end. He may not actually have pulled out but he has effectively killed his campaign. You can't be presidential if you have to beg your (specially selected) audience for applause. He blew the punchline on his monologue and didn't have anywhere to go. A more feisty orator could have ad libbed afterwards to draw the applause but saying "please clap" is giving up. He is way behind and really needs a slew of "knock it out of the park" inspirational zingers but instead he waves the white flag. His heart's not in it.