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...Arizona senator has never been on the best of terms with social conservatives - James Dobson, president of the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, once flatly declared "I will never vote for McCain." A recent poll from the Pew Research Center found that although McCain has the support of a healthy 61% of Evangelicals, he still lags behind President Bush's numbers in the same constituency four years...
...Lomong went on to become a middle distance star at Northern Arizona University, and has now arrived as a first time Olympian. This is his moment. He's had a traumatic, remarkable story, and he deserves to spend it however he wants. If it's not about China, it's all about him. In Lomong's case, that quite all right...
...unmuffled bikes again sounded its response, filling the air with exhaust and making the ground quake. It was McCain's sort of crowd: heavy with vets and drunk with freedom-loving fervor. In the past, the Arizona Senator might have followed up with some "straight talk" or bad jokes, the informal shtick that won him New Hampshire twice. But the newest version of candidate McCain does not dillydally, soft-pedal or claim to live outside politics-as-usual. He hits hard and on message--one focused squarely on his opponent, the political phenom Barack Obama...
...McCain's ability to manage the Iraq war, favoring him over Obama by a margin of 51%-36%, a five point jump since June. And voters boosted their belief that McCain would do a better job in managing the war on terror than they did in June, favoring the Arizona Senator over his colleague from Illinois by a 56%-29% margin, up from 53%-33% in June...
...with his Democratic opponent Barack Obama, is bringing energy policy to the forefront of the increasingly nasty campaign. In recent days, McCain has hammered Obama for his opposition to offshore drilling and his support of alternative conservation measures like inflating tires, while Obama has countered with attacks painting the Arizona Republican as a puppet of Big Oil. But both in Congress and on the campaign trail, the fight has turned into little more than a sound-and-light show, full of heated rhetoric but offering little chance for meaningful action, at least before it's clear who will...