This is how you know the McCain campaign is REALLY in trouble

In a story reporting on the trouble John McCain's presidential campaign is in, floundering in the polls and well behind in fundraising, The Times throws in this line about one of the advisers who were either fired or resigned yesterday in a massive shakeup of the campaign:

"Mr. Weaver’s move was unexpected even by him; he gave up a rent-controlled apartment in Greenwich Village three weeks ago to move to Washington."

As any New Yorker knows, you don't give up a rent-controlled apartment, especially in the Village, on a whim.