Candidates of Chance
Michael Weisskopf and I have a story in the next newsstand issue of TIME about John McCain's multi-thousand dollar dice hobby and Barack Obama's formative poker playing game in Illinois.
Incidentally, here is the only public picture I have found that shows McCain at the tables, the work of an anonymous SMS blogger with a cell phone camera.
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