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...McCain also leads the Republican pack in his vocal efforts to find a solution for climate change. While other Republican candidates refuse to acknowledge that human activity has threatened our environment, he has sponsored bills to limit greenhouse gas emissions. In town hall meetings across New Hampshire, he has discussed the need to develop alternate sources of energy. He regularly inspires Republican voters—who might not otherwise give this issue a second thought—to recognize the danger of destroying our generation’s planet and becoming entrenched in dependency on foreign...
...arrived at his five-person Hurlbut Hall suite. An indefatigable student, Strauss was in bed by 10 p.m. every night, his former roommates said...
...purple "I'm a health care voter" shirt stands up to ask a question at a John McCain town hall in Exeter, N.H. "I am embarrassed by our current administration," he begins, before he is interrupted by applause, "Why can't this country get Osama bin Laden? I need closure on that." He was also concerned about Iraq: "We've turned that country into hell." Though he was addressing McCain, he told me later that he had wanted to present these thoughts to both of the candidates he was considering supporting in the primary on Tuesday - McCain and Democrat Barack...
...McCain tried to lock one up one of those undecided McBamas at the town hall in Exeter. In responding to the voter asking about Iraq, McCain didn't stray from his usual answers on the topics of bin Laden and Iraq. He will "follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell." As for Iraq being hell-on-earth...America will stay there, he said, for as long as it takes, even if - as he put it later - "that's one hundred years, one thousand years, ten thousand years or until the earth collapses under global climate change...
...Mary Jane Merrit, a retired schoolteacher and undecided voter in Haverford, has a son in Iraq. Merrit says "bringing the war to an end" is her number one issue. But at a McCain town hall, she says that his commitment to continuing the war for as long as necessary, while a cause for concern, doesn't matter to her as much as character and - this might sound familiar - change. "What I like about McCain is that I don't think he could lie," she says, adding that she is also looking for someone who doesn't "represent the old politics...