McCain, Allies Aim to Block Big Money
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Sen. John McCain and others pushing for tougher campaign finance rules won a surprising ally Wednesday as they announced a renewed effort to block partisan interest groups from spending millions of dollars in big donations in congressional and presidential races.
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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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Republican John McCain struggled to keep his deeply troubled campaign afloat Monday, laying off dozens of staffers after lackluster fundraising and excessive spending left him with just $2 million for his second presidential bid.
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A top political adviser in Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign helped arrange an introduction in 2006 between McCain and a Russian billionaire whose suspected links to anti-democratic and organized-crime figures are so controversial that the U.S. government revoked his visa.
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Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts  Gov. Mitt Romney on Sunday jostled for dominance in a  tightening race for the Republican presidential nomination that  could hinge on competing messages on the Iraq war and the  flagging U.S. economy.
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Senator John McCain, an author of a pending compromise immigration plan, found himself at odds with his rivals.
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In the next few weeks leading up to Election Day, money will pour into candidates' coffers and voters will be able to see which lobby groups are trying hardest to buy their lawmakers' favor.
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Bloomberg - July 11 (Bloomberg) -- Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, a champion of traditional conservatives, and Rudy Giuliani, a favorite of political independents, may be the biggest beneficiaries if John McCain&#39;s bid for the Republican presidential nomination collapses, political experts say.
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Sen. John McCain challenged other Republican presidential candidates Tuesday to propose their own immigration legislation or stop criticizing the plan he's co-sponsoring.
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Presidential candidates are scrambling to pad their bank accounts before the end of the third financial quarter on Sunday, loading up on cash for a big-spending three-month dash to the first votes in 2008.
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Politicians are pushing an idea to fight high health costs by shielding employers from the most expensive medical cases.
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Presidential candidate John  McCain said on Monday he has rejected public funding and its  accompanying spending limits as he seeks to wrap up the  Republican presidential nomination.
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Independent groups are using their financial muscle as never before to influence the presidential race.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; As the nation's trial lawyers again funneled tens of millions of dollars to Democrats and their causes in the last election, Republicans were crafting a strategy to choke off that money for future campaigns.
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Republican Senator John McCain raised only 11.2 million dollars in campaign funds for his 2008 White House bid in the last three months, forcing top staff to take pay cuts and shake up his campaign.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain headed Tuesday to New York to raise money on rival Rudy Giuliani's turf and pick up the endorsement of the former New York mayor's longtime nemesis.