Newsweek: McCain Camp successfully shifted spotlight off of Davis's ties to Freddie Mac

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/09/25/the-real-upside-of-mccain-s-suspension.aspx

When I first weighed in on John McCain's decision to "suspend" his campaign and swoop into Washington, I said that "for the moment, this is almost all upside for McCain, at least politically." One reason was that the maneuver shifted the media spotlight off of campaign manager Rick Davis's ties to Freddie Mac--then the MSM's scandale du jour--and onto potentially favorable terrain. That's still true. In the 24 hours since McCain's announcement, NEWSWEEK's indefatigable investigative ace Michael Isikoff has reported that "Davis has remained the treasurer and a corporate director of his lobbying firm this year, despite repeated statements by campaign officials that he had ended his relationship with the firm in 2006"--and no one seemed to notice.