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MSNBC
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McCain sought to distance himself from Bush by delivering the speech in New Orleans, a city whose ravages from Hurricane Katrina became a glaring symbol of Bush administration incompetence. The Arizona senator campaigned here six weeks ago, vowing that su..
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MSNBC
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Smitten with the celebrity of power’
Mr. McCain has often said he decided to run for office because he felt his war injuries would make attaining the same rank as his father and grandfather “impossible.” But Mr. Lehman, now an adviser to the McCa..
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MSNBC
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Client list under fierce attack from Dems
That client list is now the subject of a fierce attack from Democrats who are clamoring for Black, 60, to be fired as McCain's top political strategist. And the candidate's decision this month to impose a stric..
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SF Gate
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Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals.
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MSNBC
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Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright could hurt his presidential hopes. So could his comment about “bitter” small-town America clinging to guns and religion. And Americans might question Sen. Hillary Clinton’s honesty and trustwort..
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MSNBC
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Prescient warnings
Indeed, many of his warnings from those years have come to pass. Numerous expiration dates on those tax cuts, designed to hold down the cost to the Treasury, proved to be just the "gimmicks" he said they were, as Congress extended th..
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SF Gate
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Barack Obama began the month of April with a 5-1 cash advantage over a debt-saddled Hillary Rodham Clinton, setting the stage for his lopsided spending in the crucial primary state of Pennsylvania.
Financial reports filed Sunday by the Democratic presi..
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CNN
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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would both statistically tie Republican John McCain in a general election matchup, a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll indicates. According to the poll released Tuesday morning, both Obama and Clinton are locked in..
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MSNBC
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Although Clinton is ahead in this poll, Obama is viewed among Democrats — by 48 percent to 38 percent — as the candidate having a better chance of defeating Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
But the poll s..
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ElectionSpeak
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Republican presidential nominee John McCain has declared that he is cancer free. He was obviously reacting to a New York Times article, which raised concerns that he could suffer a recurrence of the skin cancer that he battled with almost eight years ago...
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MSNBC
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Bush and McCain exhibited solidarity in the Rose Garden on Wednesday when the president embraced the Arizona senator as the party's next standard-bearer. But neither offered anything definitive about what Bush's role would be in McCain's general election..
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MSNBC
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Mike Huckabee bowed to reality Tuesday and out of the Republican presidential race.
"We kept the faith," he told his end-of-the-road rally Tuesday after John McCain clinched the nomination. "I'd rather lose an election than lose the principles that got..
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CNN
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Arizona Sen. John McCain, whose White House aspirations went into a nose dive last summer, clinched the Republican Party's presidential nomination Tuesday night with a sweep of GOP contests in four states. "I am very, very grateful and pleased to note tha..
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MSNBC
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Ed Gillespie, the White House counselor to Mr. Bush and the chairman of the Republican National Committee during Mr. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign, echoed Mr. Black. “Senator McCain has his own identity,” Mr. Gillespie said in an interview, “an..
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MSNBC
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Reinforcing right-wing doubts
The effect of Mr. Limbaugh’s resistance could be substantial, serving, at the least, to reinforce doubts among other conservatives about Mr. McCain, who would seem to need the party’s conservative base to turn out in f..
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MSNBC
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Polls taken last week showed McCain with a double-digit lead over Huckabee, a Baptist minister, but Huckabee drew strong support in rural western Virginia, the state’s Bible belt. He appealed to Christian conservatives in Virginia, where he had the endo..
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MSNBC
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Mike Huckabee's recent refrain about believing in miracles makes the ordained Baptist minister appear almost prophetic.
Christian evangelicals in Virginia who favored him in droves seemed to send the would-be Republican presidential nominee John McCain..
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CNN
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GOP front-runner John McCain is heading to Washington to try to convince a conservative-rich conference that he's their man. Despite big wins in the Super Tuesday contests, McCain has yet to secure the support of his party's conservative side.
McCain,..
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CNN
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Sen. John McCain cemented his Republican front-runner status Tuesday, piling up big wins coast-to- coast, according to CNN projections. Democratic voters remain evenly split on Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama for their party's nomination.
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CNN
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GOP front-runner Sen. John McCain has won a key endorsement from ex-New York Gov. George Pataki, in a last-minute show of support that may sway some Super Tuesday voters. McCain also has won the support of Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of delegate-rich..
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