Campaigns Unable to Agree on Series of Meetings.

In almost every campaign appearance this week, Senator John McCain has been leaning on Senator Barack Obama to accept his offer to engage in a series of 10 one-on-one town-hall-style meetings, a format that worked well for Mr. McCain in the primaries. But after a round of proposals and counterproposals, the campaigns failed to reach an agreement on Friday on how often to meet and when any head-to-head matchups should occur. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]