Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain said in an interview aired on Sunday he would bring Democrats into his Cabinet and administration as part of his attempt to change the political atmosphere in Washington.
“I don’t know how many, but I can tell you, with all due respect to previous administrations, it is not going to be a single, ‘Well, we have a Democrat now,’” McCain said on CBS’ Face the Nation.
“It’s going to be the best people in America, the smartest people in America,” he said in an interview taped on Saturday.
Both McCain and Senator Barack Obama, his Democratic rival in the Nov. 4 presidential election, are claiming to be the agent of change needed to fix problems in Washington.
Obama has been running on the change theme for more than a year and a half while McCain has come it to it more recently after mostly campaigning on his experience.
Obama, in an interview also taped earlier and televised on Sunday on ABC’s This Week, said McCain spoke of reducing the rancor in Washington but the Republican National Convention that nominated him last week was a highly partisan affair.
“How you campaign I think foreshadows how you’re going to govern,” Obama said.
With 58 days to go until the election, the two candidates took a rare day off on Sunday before plunging back into the fray.
Since he accepted the presidential nomination at his party’s convention on Thursday, McCain had been campaigning with his choice for vice president, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and attracting enthusiastic crowds.
Palin was the only one of the top four candidates who did not appear on the Sunday talk show circuit.
McCain said she would start giving interviews “within the next few days” but did not elaborate.
In other news, a new opinion poll showed McCain taking a lead over Obama after receiving a boost from last week’s Republican convention.
The USA Today/Gallup survey, carried out over the weekend, showed McCain ahead of Obama 50 percent to 46 percent among registered voters, a turnaround from a previous poll taken by the newspaper just before the convention.
That poll had McCain trailing Obama by 7 percentage points, USA Today said.
“The Republicans had a very successful convention and, at least initially, the selection of Sarah Palin has made a big difference,” political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia is quoted by the paper as saying.
“He’s in a far better position than his people imagined he would be in at this point,” he said.
Twenty-nine percent of respondents said Palin’s selection had made them more likely to vote for McCain and 21 percent said their vote in support of the Republican ticket was now less likely.
Obama’s choice of Senator Joseph Biden as running mate made 14 percent more likely to vote for the Democrat and 7 percent less likely, according to the poll.
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