McCain defends Christian outreach effort
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain is defending his outreach to conservative Christians, arguing that his effort is not political pandering to win the GOP nomination.
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The Republican candidate takes on the tough task of defending his positions before religious conservatives today.
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NEW YORK - Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called advertisements run against John Kerry by pro-Republican Vietnam War veterans "dishonest and dishonorable" but said Monday it's legitimate to question the Democratic presidential candidate's anti-war efforts following his service...
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Famed pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren Wednesday defended his invitation to Democratic Sen. Barack Obama to speak at his church from objections by other evangelicals to the senator's support of abortion rights.
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John McCain on Wednesday defended his opposition eight years ago to the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia, brushing aside protests that dogged him at campaign events and suggesting most people in the state don't want the issue reopened.
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Republican John McCain asked disgruntled conservatives to support his presidential bid on Thursday, shortly after Mitt Romney ended his struggling campaign and made McCain the all-but-certain nominee.
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US Senator John McCain, a leading member of the Republican Party, said he prefers not to be a part of President George W. Bush's new administration, though he helped Bush campaign for re-election.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's argument as he woos restive religious and social conservatives comes down to this: "I have a record that can be trusted." His GOP rivals, he suggests, do not.
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CONCORD, N.H., July 13 -- Sen. John McCain of Arizona vowed Friday not to let a dramatic staff shake-up or a shortage of funds deter his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, and he signaled no slackening in his support for the troop surge strategy in Iraq, accusing his Democratic rival...
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Sen. John McCain sought to weaken support for a resolution opposing President Bush's Iraq war strategy Sunday, saying proponents are intellectually dishonest.
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Mike Huckabee is trying to fire up his fellow evangelical Christians without unnerving secular-minded voters.
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Republican White House hopeful John McCain's support for a bipartisan immigration bill has cost him the backing of a South Carolina county campaign chairman.
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Republican front-runner John McCain is trying to gain his party's presidential nomination by convincing conservatives he is one of them, without hurting support from moderate voters who have propelled his candidacy.
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The Christian Science Monitor - John McCain's victory in the Florida primary sends the Arizona senator into Super Tuesday with a burst of momentum, but the race for the Republican presidential nomination remains highly competitive.
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Sen. John McCain padded his commanding delegate lead in the Republican presidential race Wednesday and urged conservative critics to cut him some slack. In a Democratic surprise, Hillary Rodham Clinton disclosed she'd lent $5 million to her cash-short campaign.
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Sen. John McCain swept aside his long-running differences with President Bush on Monday and urged voters to re-elect him, offering a stout defense of Bush's decision to invade Iraq as the only way to keep that country from acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
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Republican John McCain challenged the notion he is struggling to rally conservative critics as he picked up the endorsement Monday of evangelical leader Gary Bauer.