McCain claims a Super Tuesday surge
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He's amassed twice the delegates of rival Romney. But the GOP's conservative wing remains resistant to his campaign.
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Republican John McCain called his victory in South Carolina's presidential primary on Saturday evidence that his campaign "can carry right through" Florida into the giant round of caucuses and primaries on Feb. 5. "I know it's not easy," he told The Associated Press, "and we've got a long way to go."
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton got a boost to their campaigns for presidential nominations from an influential newspaper on Sunday despite setbacks in opinion polls.
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Senator John McCain was successful in the delegate-rich states, while Mike Huckabee racked up victories across the South.
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John McCain's victory in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary appears to be paying off.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Arizona Senator John McCain last night triumphed in the Florida primary and earned front-runner status in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - Arizona Sen. John McCain won the New Hampshire Republican primary on Tuesday, a huge boost to his bid for the U.S. presidential nomination just months after his campaign was being written off as a lost cause.
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John McCain appears to be steamrolling his way to the Republican nomination; Mitt Romney can't seem to catch a break.
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To hear John McCain talk, you'd think he already was the Republican nominee. "The first thing we've got to do after Tuesday is unite this party," he says repeatedly these days Â as if the 21 states holding caucuses and primaries this week are simply a formality.
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A confident John McCain was hoping for a decisive victory in the Republican presidential primaries despite sharp attacks from the party's right flank in the lead up to Super Tuesday.
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Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battled to a draw on "Super Tuesday" and John McCain took charge of the Republican race in coast-to-coast presidential nominating battles in 24 U.S. states.
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PHOENIX, Feb. 5 -- Sen. John McCain's operation has finally taken on the trappings of a successful GOP campaign: The more than 1,000 supporters gathered here at the swank Arizona Biltmore can sip mineral water and soda free of charge at bars at his Super Tuesday night party, as they take in the s...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton rode a wave of Hispanic voter turnout to victory and John McCain benefited from voters concerned about the economy and Iraq as the nation's most populous state wielded its influence in the presidential nominating process for the first time in decades.
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Arizona Sen. John McCain won the California Republican primary on Tuesday, defeating main rival Mitt Romney in the biggest contest of the day and boosting his front-running bid for the party's U.S. presidential nomination, NBC projected.
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Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, picked up a total of 50 GOP national convention delegates from Michigan and Louisiana Saturday.
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Republican John McCain proved Tuesday night he is not just the darling of independents. In a presidential primary closed to all but registered Republicans in Florida, the Arizona senator rolled past Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor.
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The Associated Press projected victories for Senator John McCain in Illinois, Connecticut and New Jersey.