McCain already sounds like GOP nominee
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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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Republican Sen. John McCain is emerging as the bipartisan scold whom neither presidential candidate can get enough of this year. Although the maverick Arizona senator hasn't been shy about taking both campaigns to task, Democrat John Kerry sounded out McCain as a possible running mate and President Bush will showcase him on the opening night of the Republican National Convention.
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Republican front-runner John McCain, invigorated by victory in Florida, is planning to directly challenge rival Mitt Romney for support among conservative voters, trying to convince them of his economic credentials and electability, strategists said.
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The primary created to keep insurgents from winning the nomination is poised to do it again. That's bad news for John McCain, and music to Mike Huckabee's ears
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Raising money and thinking about a running mate are two of the big challenges facing likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
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Rasmussen Reports - Strange as it may seem to many who wrote off John McCain last summer, the Arizona Senator is now the frontrunner the Republican Presidential nomination (a fact that sends chills down the spine of many conservative activists and pundits).
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Not so fast, Sen. McCain. John McCain's campaign issued a statement last week claiming the Arizona senator had surpassed the number of delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination for president, after Mitt Romney endorsed him. John McCain sure looks like he has the nomination all but wrapped up. But he isn't there yet, and here's why:
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As a Republican heavyweight not an underdog, John McCain embarks on his second presidential run facing numerous challenges in courting a GOP establishment he once spurned at nearly every turn.
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Sen. John McCain made it official on Wednesday that he is seeking the 2008 Republican presidential nomination and said he plans a formal announcement in April.
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He may be their only hope to win the White House, but John McCain still has to convince the GOP that he's one of them
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One might expect Republican senators to cheer the prospect of a colleague becoming the party's presidential nominee.
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Not so fast, Sen. McCain. John McCain's campaign issued a statement last week claiming the Arizona senator had surpassed the number of delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination for president, after Mitt Romney endorsed him.
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John McCain was a straight-talking upstart in the 2000 presidential election. Now he's poised to be the G.O.P. favorite for 2008, But at what cost?
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The odds don't look good for the upstart conservative candidate's race against John McCain, but he and his loyal supporters are having too much fun to give up yet
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It probably wasn't his first choice, but John McCain got a new theme song yesterday for his floundering presidential campaign.
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Out of the turmoil facing the Republican field after the Iowa caucuses may rise yet another opportunity for Senator John McCain, whose candidacy all but collapsed last year.
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Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain,  once courted by Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry, is  emerging as a major force in the re-election campaign of  President Bush, who vanquished McCain in the 2000 Republican  primary.