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...luckiest man you will ever meet." Most of the time, he is speaking of the past - the fire he narrowly escaped on the U.S.S. Forrestal in 1967 or the the five years of torture and confinement he survived in Hanoi. But that luck continues to this day. His victories Tuesday in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont sealed for him both the Republican nomination and one of the most remarkable runs in modern political history...
...much of a surprise Tuesday night when McCain clarified his position on destiny before hundreds of supporters in Dallas. "I have never believed I was destined be President," he said at one point, between the cheers. "I don't believe anyone is predestined to lead America...
...race until South Carolina, bleeding enough votes away from Huckabee to allow McCain to win that key state. Even Huckabee seemed to cooperate, devoting crucial days to a foolhardy effort in Michigan and swearing off any negative attacks on McCain before he bowed out of the race Tuesday night...
...luck continues to break his way for now. As McCain celebrated wrapping up the nomination, the Democratic results painted a different picture of a divided party with more fireworks expected to come. In interviews Tuesday, Republican operatives described the increasingly nasty infighting between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as a godsend. "Here McCain is getting another lucky break," says Scott Reed, a Republican consultant who managed Bob Dole's 1996 campaign. "What Hillary has been saying in Texas is music to our ears...
...optimism of a campaign that is riding a remarkable two-month wave of good fortune. But eight months remain between now and the election, and that is a lot of time, even for a man like McCain, who seems to attract good fortune. As McCain put it himself on Tuesday night, "Nothing, nothing, nothing is inevitable in America." He knows well that the door of chance swings both ways. Indeed, midway through his victory speech Tuesday, McCain's teleprompter failed...