McCain, Obama to Take Campaigns Abroad

Travel Blog  •  Julia Ross  •  07.02.08 | 9:03 AM ET

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ABC News’ The Note reports that both John McCain and Barack Obama plan to travel abroad this month, ostensibly to highlight their foreign policy credentials. McCain is off to Mexico and Colombia; Obama will hit seven countries in the Middle East and Europe. Our U.S. Presidential Candidate Travel Scorecard had the two running neck and neck back in January, but it looks like Obama’s surging in the home stretch.

Tags: Global Village, North America, United States, News and Briefs

Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications. Her essay, Six Degrees of Vietnam, was shortlisted for "The Best American Travel Writing 2009."


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