John McCain and Barack Obama have been claiming from the beginning that they would run a different kind of campaign - less partisan, less nasty, less in attack mode.

While there already has been plenty of attacking and more is likely to come, both have shown signs of holding to their word.

McCain’s classy ad congratulating Obama the night he accepted the Democratic nomination was an example.

Obama’s Labor Day speeches in Detroit and Monroe, when he set aside politics in deference to the hurricane hitting New Orleans, is another. Same kudos to McCain for throttling down the Republican convention during the hurricane.

And Obama struck another kinder and gentler note when he declined to discuss Sarah Palin’s daughter’s unwed pregnancy, declaring in no uncertain terms that family are off-limits and that no one from his staff will discuss the subject.

While I’m not so naive to think that attack ads won’t be used this fall, maybe this pair of candidates finally understands that Americans will respond positively to candidates who run clean campaigns.

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