STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — He hated the helplessness of watching John McCain’s efforts from afar, so Joe White, 62, loaded up his trailer in South Carolina and drove here last weekend. He set up camp in a Wal-Mart parking lot, bought a map of State College and started knocking on strangers’ doors — 25 houses per hour, 10 hours each day.

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