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...clear - the sooner this race ends, the better. With McCain leading comfortably in polls of his home state of Arizona, which also holds a primary Tuesday night, a victory in Michigan could mean a party increasingly divided in the coming weeks. And that could spell bad news for the GOP come November...
...John McCain campaign leaflet circulated throughout South Carolina this week reads: "Join John McCain's Fight. Republicans, Independents and Democrats Can and Should Vote." This is the "Fourth Way" campaign John McCain is waging - and a signal to GOP leaders that the Arizona senator may be their best bet in the November general election. Most polls have McCain and George W. Bush in a dead heat among likely South Carolina voters heading into Saturday's Republican primary. Bush is enjoying a comfortable lead among registered Republicans, and McCain is hoping that 100,000 more voters - mostly independents and Democrats - will...
...Jones University, which bans interracial dating - has left McCain standing tall in the center and Bush pushed to the fringes. In addition, the latest polls show McCain with a much greater chance of defeating Al Gore or Bill Bradley in November. "You can already see others in the GOP acknowledging McCain's ability to appeal to moderates and independents." Says Tumulty. "Republicans in the House and Senate are now reaching out to McCain's playbook by toning down their tax bill. While last year they called for drastic tax cuts, now they're using McCain's approach to seeking 'targeted...
...South Carolina's Republican primary comes closer, a strange phenomenon that no one foresaw has dramatically altered the GOP: the rise of Arizona Sen. John S. McCain. New Hampshire conservatives, moderates and independent voters all jumped on the McCain bandwagon. Why? One word: character. And as I sat back listening to pundit after pundit talking about McCain's character I got very confused; were they talking about the John McCain that I knew? It couldn...
Forbes likes to believe that he stimulated the GOP debate on taxes and abortion. But Texas Gov. George W. Bush and McCain would have discussed tax cuts regardless of Forbes, and Forbes may have even brought more attention to abortion than the other candidates would have liked. For instance, Forbes probably pushed Bush to his conservative stance on abortion. In fact, Forbes helped facilitate the GOP's favorite way to lose general elections: force leading candidates to the extreme right during the primaries, so that they alienate the majority of the general election voters and simultaneously win the nomination...