McCain's Conservative Courtship
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The presumptive GOP nominee knows he must prevent a civil war within the party to have any chance in the fall
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A vocal slice of the Arizonaâs conservative Republicans hope to throw off Sen. John McCain's '08 campaign.
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The choice of Alberto R. Gonzales as attorney general may be part of a strategy to bolster his credentials with conservatives.
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The same conservative Christian activist who called a meeting last fall to discuss backing a third-party candidate to counter a possible Rudy Giuliani candidacy is revisiting the idea as Sen. John McCain closes in on the Republican presidential nomination.
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As a maverick Republican and Vietnam war soulmate of Democratic challenger John Kerry, Senator John McCain is walking a thin political line in this year's presidential election and apparently relishing every moment.
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Republican Sen. John McCain's standoff with the White House over treatment of detainees &#151; an issue the former POW knows intimately well &#151; threatens to exacerbate his already contentious relationship with conservatives.
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Republican John McCain is trying to ease long-standing distrust among the party's powerful conservatives. It will be a slow process.
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Sen. John McCain and the conservatives -- it's been an on-again, off-again affair.
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The right has a crush on Fred Thompson, but his own papers suggest he is less conservative than they think.
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Core conservative Republicans are trapped between denial and grudging acceptance over the rise of John McCain as the party's presumptive 2008 presidential standard bearer.
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After Tuesdayâs primaries, John McCain had hoped to begin courting more moderate voters.
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Setting aside any doubt about his presidential aspirations, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona announced Wednesday that he would seek the GOP presidential nomination.
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WASHINGTON - Arizona Republican John McCain is a man seemingly stuck in the middle this presidential election year: a friend and sometimes defender of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and a loyal party wingman for President Bush who is a
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain reached out to his party's conservative base Saturday and cast himself as the only candidate who could beat the Democrats to the White House in November.
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Sen. John McCain&#39;s support for a  fragile immigration compromise puts him in a familiar spot --  at odds with another leading Republican presidential contender  and with the conservative voters he has feverishly courted.
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John McCain sought to mend his tattered relationship with conservatives and unify a splintered GOP as he all but clinched the party's presidential nomination Thursday. Mitt Romney, his former chief rival, dropped out, and a parade of prominent Republicans swung behind the Arizona senator.
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Quotes from Republican lawmakers about having Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as the Republican presidential nominee: