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A maverick, John McCain tackled campaign reform, military reform, spending reform. He took on presidents, partisans and popular opinion.

Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who dropped out of the race Wednesday and endorsed John McCain, did not take part.

Republican rival Senator John McCain is across the pond still on his world tours, spending the holiday in London.

John McCain said the only thing worse than a war with Iran would be an Iran with a bomb.

John McCain and Barack Obama talk as if it was all down to the greed of modern bankers.

Let me ask you a different question, though, Carl. Was this John McCain at his oratorical best just in terms of the style of the delivery?

There have been a few honourable exceptions in the upper chamber, notably John McCain's interventions on the use of torture.

A reporter on TV, unable to give up the suspense, tries to think up fanciful ways in which John McCain could reach 270 electoral votes.

Senator John McCain, a Republican presidential hopeful, has said he wants to see the United States in the ICC.

With just a few days before the election, John McCain accused Barack Obama of being too liberal for the country.

The only Republican candidate to give vocal support to the "surge" is John McCain, the front-runner, but his hawkishness may hurt him.

Mr Thompson himself is said to prefer John McCain. But any of these candidates could grab some of his supporters, as could Rudy Giuliani.

During an appearance on CNN's Late Edition, he said on many key issues, John McCain is too liberal to be the Republican nominee.

With the primary season forgotten, Mr Obama is now sauntering towards the centre, ready to spar with John McCain.

John McCain is trying to tie Barack Obama to oil companies while Obama spend part of the day saying McCain will keep economy in a ditch.

John McCain said he modelled himself on Teddy Roosevelt, a man who "nourished the soul of a great nation" .

I might even imagine that this was also seen as a way to put John McCain in the White House.

Barack Obama said he was inclined to back it, while John McCain, his Republican rival, said doing nothing had not been an option.

In the American tradition of blended families, John McCain's family is a textbook example in every sense of the word.

The big story out of that interview was that John McCain does not know how many houses he owns.

John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, said the US should "avoid reaching for agreement for its own sake" .

Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain supported the surge. His Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama, did not.

"John McCain's candidacy is as much a casualty of Wall Street as Lehman or Merrill, " he said.

In 2008 it was one of only four New York districts that voted for John McCain over Barack Obama.

In the magazine interview, al-Maliki did not indicate that he was endorsing Obama over Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.

Palin said she was proud to accept the invitation to run alongside John McCain in the general election in November.

It was a night of quiet triumph for Republican Senator John McCain, whose campaign had been prematurely declared "finished" months ago.

On the Republican side, Arizona Senator John McCain continued to question Obama's message of bringing change to Washington.

On the Republican side, the main news was that John McCain is in deep trouble.

When a book alleged that John McCain had once called his wife Cindy one, the outrage was bipartisan.

John McCain might be worried about losing an election, but I'm worried about you losing your job and losing your house!

John McCain, currently a senator representing Arizona, would be the oldest president of the United States if elected.

Palin has been a political lightening rod since she was chosen as Republican nominee John McCain's running mate in 2008.

In 2008 Oklahoma was the only state in which John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, won every county.

Fiorina is now an adviser to Republican Sen. John McCain in his bid for the White House.

She proved to be a hopeless liability when she was on John McCain's ticket two years ago.

A recent poll shows him doing just as well as Mrs Clinton against John McCain among non-Hispanic whites and people without college degrees.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain laid out a detailed foreign policy blueprint in a speech in Los Angeles.

"John McCain sided with the Democrats and voted against the Bush tax cuts, " he said.

The Democratic campaign must be delighted, not least by the neglect of his Republican rival, John McCain.

Traditional hawks in the Republican Party, chief among them Senator John McCain of Arizona, agree with him.

Republican presidential contender John McCain picked up the endorsement of a former rival Thursday.

THE day before South Carolina's Republican primary, John McCain held a rally on an old aircraft carrier, the USS Yorktown.

Three weeks or so ago it looked like the contest would be fought on John McCain's chosen territory.

AT this point in the presidential campaign, Senator John McCain is the candidate of ideas on issues of tax policy.

Republicans rejoiced, and John McCain made Joe the Plumber a theme of the third and final debate, in an attempt to woo blue collar voters.

We are facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and John McCain wants us to turn the page on talking about the economy?

For the moment, Republican John McCain has an advantage over Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Barack Obama should keep Ball in mind as he mulls John McCain's suggestion of a joint visit to Iraq.

But at least one reader, Palin's former running mate, John McCain, will be waiting more with trepidation than excitement.

On 24 September, John McCain suspended his campaign and went to Washington, proclaiming that it was time to put aside party differences.

There are a number of such climate cowards, but let me single out one in particular: Senator John McCain.

Time was running out for both presumptive presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

John McCain's attempt to reduce earmarks in an omnibus spending bill was defeated in the Senate.

"For John McCain, there is no end in sight to end this war. Fundamental difference: we will end this war, " he said.

John McCain, freshly returned from the front line, said there were signs the surge is working.

John McCain spotted an opening to frame the election around the experience needed in a commander-in-chief.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain says troop draw-downs must be determined by the military and political situation.

Europeans widely prefer Mr Obama to his Republican rival, John McCain, whom many see as a continuation of George Bush.

During a speech Tuesday in Houston, Senator John McCain called for an end to a moratorium on energy development in coastal areas.

THE last time he ran for president John McCain spent months rolling around New Hampshire in a bus, the Straight Talk Express.

But Democrats did not have Denver all to themselves, as shown by a small group waving John McCain signs outside the convention center.

"China is not behaving as a responsible world power, " John McCain, the former Republican presidential nominee, told CNN yesterday.

He said both Mr. Obama and Senator John McCain are "outstanding men. "

John McCain's fans note that in head-to-head polls against Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, their man is the only Republican who wins.

On the Republican side, John McCain's campaign in New Hampshire has been re-energized by an endorsement from the Union Leader.

John McCain, a Republican senator and another candidate for president, supports the idea, which he calls the "privatisation" of sanctions.

Many in both parties say they respect John McCain for his military service, his physical and mental toughness, and his strong personality.

Mr Obama is a "transformational figure" , he mildly said, and his old friend John McCain had erred in choosing a neophyte as a running-mate.

But there was also good news for the presumed Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain.

To John McCain, the Republican nominee, this is all dangerous nonsense.

John McCain says both Republicans and Democrats haven't been doing enough to control the spread of nuclear weapons.

In the last few days John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have all weighed in.

And Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, has chimed in with warnings of a Vietnam-style quagmire.

With just six days to Election Day, Democrat Barack Obama accused Republican John McCain of taking a low road by labeling him a socialist.

But I'm more concerned that John McCain and other Republican senators are using homophobia as a defense in their argument.

A similar sentiment is being expressed by U. S. Senator John McCain on a visit here with three of his colleagues.

Congress has not been wholly idle. Thanks in part to John McCain, the law governing military interrogations has been tightened.

Mr Bush senior stayed in the background of his son's campaign, and declined to get stuck in even after John McCain won in New Hampshire.

John McCain has served his country longer in a POW camp than his opponent has served in the United States Senate. ''

Barack Obama and John McCain were due to meet in Oxford, Mississippi for the first of their three eagerly awaited presidential debates.

Senator John McCain says the American public is not getting a full picture of life in Iraq.

Senator John McCain winks at the crowd as he arrives for a campaign stop in Pensacola, Florida, on April 2, 2008.

Powell says both Barack Obama and John McCain are qualified, but thinks Obama can be a transformational figure.

If John McCain, the Republicans' presumptive nominee, wins November's presidential election, such an effort is unlikely.

"With friends like Joe Biden, John McCain doesn't need enemies, " said Paul Light of New York University's Center for the Study of Congress.

The Republicancandidate, Senator John McCain, is a fine man, but he will not wage asforceful a campaign as Senator Clinton.

Presumptive Republican candidate Arizona Senator John McCain toured Iowa separately from the president.

First, our top story. Senator John McCain formally accepting the nomination of the Republican Party for the coming presidential battle.

The weakening economy is a blow to Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain as well as Republican congressional candidates.

FOR John McCain, winning primaries is no longer just about heaping up delegates.

Meantime, his rival John McCain is making a seven-state swing back to his Arizona home.

John McCain. He took a vacation, and so much more. And we get more of the same.

Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday to take part.

Failing that, the USS John McCain could closely follow the ship until it reaches a port.

For the Senator John McCain of 2007, that would not be a problem.

The Republican Party's likely presidential nominee, Senator John McCain, praised Kennedy as a "legendary lawmaker" .

John McCain will visit seven states on Monday, ending the marathon effort in his home state of Arizona.

Presumptive Republican candidate John McCain generally supports the president's current policy in Iraq.

Meanwhile, the presumed Republican candidate, Senator John McCain, focused on the economy Tuesday in a speech in California.

There is no end of after-the-fact explanations for John McCain's defeat in this presidential election.

The Clinton camp had suggested that a combined ticket would be formidable against the presumed Republican nominee, Senator John McCain.

The other big winner on Tuesday was John McCain, whose win moved him closer to locking up the Republican nomination.

SO CONTROVERSIAL has accounting become that even John McCain, a man not known for his interest in balance sheets, has an opinion.

John McCain is on record for wanting to radically change the individual income tax structure, and maybe even do away with it altogether.

Americans had a mixed reaction to Friday's first debate between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama.

Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last thirty years, and John McCain has been there for twenty-six of them.

The governor of Alaska shares John McCain's reputation for being a reformer and for sometimes going against their party's platform.

The ad amounted to a closing argument for Obama's bid to defeat John McCain, though the Republican nominee's name was never uttered.

Mrs Clinton also got help from John McCain, who has increasingly been targeting Mr Obama, not her, as the likely Democratic nominee.

targeting John McCain's temperament, and calling into question his behavior during Congressional deliberations on the financial crisis.

Although John McCain opposes it, he says the issue ought to be left to the states.

John McCain, meanwhile, claims that the polls are inaccurate and that his opponent's lead is much narrower.

John McCain, Mr Obama's Republican rival, was widely judged to have fumbled his response to the crisis.

But he is also looking ahead to a possible general election match-up with the presumed Republican candidate, Senator John McCain of Arizona.

S. presidential race. Presumptive presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama are busy debating taxes, foreign trade and health care.

Members of the Republican Party have already voted to nominate Arizona Senator John McCain as their presidential candidate.

Senator John McCain said, Clinton's got to bring them home.

For all the shortcomings of the campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama offer hope of national redemption.

Students cheer for the Republican presidential nominee John McCain during the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Republican John McCain told a crowd in Missouri not to count him out , even though Democrat Barack Obama is ahead in the polls.

John McCain had earned the respect of many leaders around the world.

All the leading Democratic candidates for president, along with John McCain on the Republican side, have endorsed this concept.

John McCain cruised to victory in Arizona's Republican primary, and will run for a fifth term in the Senate.

Those were the nominees back in 2008: then Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain.

Take John McCain, your Republican presidential nominee, whose senior staff includes half a dozen prominent former lobbyists.

Tonight is the last time presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain face-off.

In New Hampshire, polls say Huckabee currently trails former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Arizona Senator John McCain.

Ms Pelosi's visit will follow those of John McCain, a senator and presidential candidate, and Romano Prodi, Italy's prime minister.

Because unlike John McCain, I believe in spreading the wealth around, especially where beloved female hip-hop groups are concerned.

John McCain, Obama's Republican rival for the presidency, said Wilson's behaviour was "totally disrespectful" .

Senator Obama also took issue with the presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee, Senator John McCain.

Senator John McCain takes to the stage in St. Paul, Minnesota tonight, accepting the Republican Party nomination for president.

Republican John McCain meanwhile is running short of time, money and possibly support in the final days of the campaign.

Hillary Clinton argues that she is the Democrat more likely to defeat John McCain in big and often unpredictable states.

Though Barack Obama and John McCain sound similar on some big issues, mostly green ones, their economic philosophies are quite different.

A few miles away, John McCain is taking questions from workers in a car factory, who are mostly white men too, but much younger.

On the Republican side, Ms Rice comes in third behind former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Arizona Senator John McCain.

A new Barack Obama ad that begins airing on national cable tomorrow calls John McCain's reaction to the recent financial turmoil "erratic" .

This shift of public opinion toward economic isolationism may well become a political problem for John McCain.

He feels misunderstood and is bitter about the criticism he attracted on the campaign trail from Obama and John McCain.

JOHN McCAIN returned from Iraq on July 6th to face an impending bloodbath of his own.

The farther that Sen. John McCain can distance himself from the Bush Administration, the greater his likelihood of election in November.

Palin gave a fiery address, criticizing Obama and saying Republican nominee John McCain is a much stronger choice to lead the country.

For the Republicans, John McCain has said that America must finish the job even if it lasts a hundred years.

John McCain's decision to pick Governor Palin as his running mate excited social conservatives at the Republican convention.

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are focusing on a handful of states that could determine the winner.

Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona said today he doubts Obama's proposals will help Democrats in the congressional elections.

As a candidate, he had four times as many friends as his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, on MySpace. com.

In the Republican race, Mr Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, has fallen behind John McCain, the veteran Arizona senator.

I hung up the receiver, wondering if Ted Kennedy or John McCain bought ant traps on the way home from work.

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama offer two very different approaches for addressing healthcare coverage and cost.

John McCain: Trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is unacceptable to me and to the majority of the American people and to the families of 911.

But most of these voters are hard-core Democrats who are unlikely to defect to John McCain in November.

Instead of President Barack Obama, we would have John McCain in the White House.

Earlier in the day , Republican John McCain of Arizona warned of dire consequences if the enhanced bailout plan went down .

He has found what some would call an unlikely supporter in his former rival for the presidency, Senator John McCain.

John McCain tightened his grip on the Republican nomination with victories in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC.

John McCain, still a respected Republican voice on foreign affairs, called Mr Obama's autumn of cogitation too "leisurely" .

Biden said Obama is committed to ending the unpopular war, unlike Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

If John McCain wants to follow George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice - but it is not the change we need.

The Republican candidate, Arizona Senator John McCain, visited 7 key states on the last day of campaigning.

In nationally broadcast interviews Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are calling for reform.

Republican John McCain will appear on stage twice in Pennsylvania, while Democrat Barack Obama will speak in Ohio three times.

In Arizona, Senator John McCain easily fended off a challenge by a former congressman, J. D. Hayworth.

Kelly Bronk takes a look at the wives and families of Barack Obama and John McCain.

On the Republican side, Senator John McCain was the winner.

John McCain has had even less, having spent his adult life as a pilot, prisoner-of-war and politician.

Murdoch dithered over the 2008 presidential election, eventually backing John McCain.

John McCain, another possible presidential contender in 2008, has been out in front.

These include big states like Ohio and Florida that John McCain must win if he has any chance for victory.

On Tuesday, Senator Obama told a crowd in Virginia that John McCain would basically continue the policies of President Bush.

The latest national polls show Senator John McCain pulling ahead in the race for the Republican nomination.

There were similar comments Friday from Republican Presidential candidate John McCain.

Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama make their last-minute pleas to voters days before Election Day.

Presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama debated the wisdom of dealing directly with Iran Monday.

At a rally in Florida, this man introduced VP nominee Biden by mistakenly calling him "John McCain" .

And while many social conservatives favor John McCain, some, like Diana Anderson, are reconsidering.

Yet the balding John McCain masks, selling for the same price, were left in the bins behind the register.

Forty-seven percent of the American people still voted for John McCain.

John McCain, the prospective Republican nominee, is similarly dismissive.

In Gallup's national daily tracking [poll] for June and July, Obama has averaged a three percentage point lead over John McCain.

Opinion polls show him far behind Mr Giuliani and Senator John McCain in the race for the Republican nomination.

Obama's speech brought his a quick response from the presumptive Republican candidate, Senator John . McCain.

John McCain, the presidential candidate who lost to Mr Obama, criticised the move as "seriously misguided" .

John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, refused to commit to supporting it.

John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, offers NCLB tepid support but fails to elaborate.

On Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain again backed the imposition of pay caps.

John McCain, the Republican one, derides the "bridge to nowhere" ; his website even has a video game, "Pork Invaders" .

Obama's speech brought a quick response from the presumptive Republican candidate, Senator John McCain.

John McCain and Barack Obama offer voters starkly different economic philosophies.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running-mate has set the political atmosphere alight with both enthusiasm and dismay.

Senator John McCain of Arizona discussed the assassination during a campaign appearance in Iowa.

Senator John McCain was taken first to Benghazi's Liberation Square, where he received an enthusiastic welcome from local activists.

Republican John McCain introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate Friday.

Republican contender John McCain has also been campaigning in Ohio and Texas in advance of Tuesday's primaries.

But perhaps the best measure of how far and how fast the Republicans have fallen is John McCain.

There has been speculation that either Obama or his Republican rival, John McCain, might ask Gates to stay on.

Instead of reaching for new horizons, George Bush has put us in a hole, and John McCain's policies will keep us there.

Arizona Senator John McCain has won the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina.

In the US it seems clear that the crisis has played much better for Barack Obama than for John McCain.

But the race is tightening, and John McCain says he is still confident of victory.

Republican John McCain declares a winner in last night's debate and he's Joe the Plumber.

He in turn accused Mr Bush and John McCain, the Republican candidate, of "hypocrisy and fear mongering" .

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are focused on the economy and each other in the final days of the campaign.

Opinion polls show white Catholics evenly split between Obama and Republican John McCain.

Paulson had briefed the US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain at the weekend about the plan.

The succinct answer of Senator John McCain is that although attacking Iran would be bad, an Iran with nuclear weapons would be worse.

American presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain both support the move.

That so many of John McCain's supporters must hold their noses is, in its way, the equal and opposite virtue.

Watch how well Obama did when he talked about the mistakes of John McCain. Let's listen.

Outside the South, he beat Mr Kerry's share of the white vote in every state except New Mexico and Arizona (John McCain's home state).

John McCain has admitted he 'regrets' some aspects of the negative campaigning that has underlined the presidential race.

He didn't win the states he needed to win if he was going to make a dent at John McCain's lead.

Republican Senator John McCain, a former presidential candidate, told CBS' Face the Nation he will not support the bill.

Obama's Republican opponent, Senator John McCain, held campaign rallies in Florida.

Arizona Senator John McCain says he is running for president, making the announcement on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, has collected about $3 million from Wall Street.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain has unveiled a new economic plan.

In Hillary Clinton and John McCain, he had to defeat two formidable rivals.

and in the last presidential election Big Red went for John McCain by a 12-point margin.

John McCain now calls Republicans who oppose the Libyan War "isolationist. "

"If we fail to act, the gears of our economy will grind to a halt, " said John McCain.

Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain Friday focused on states that could play a pivotal role in the November 4 election.

But black Republicans are solidly behind their candidate - John McCain.

John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.

Republican Senator John McCain had an equally upbeat view of Mr. Bush's performance.

His Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, remains a committed free trader. But Sen.

2008 election, despite Romney has substantial backing of the family property, but still lost to Republican Senator John McCain.

Last year John McCain said he wanted to win the war in Iraq and cut waste in Washington.

Take Mike Allen and Jonathan Martin's (both of Politico) recent interview with John McCain.

Against John McCain, he developed a campaign plan and refused to deviate from it.

I'm John McCain, and I approved this message.

John McCain and Barack Obama held their second presidential debate this week.

In particular, it asked them to indicate whether they planned to vote for Barack Obama or John McCain.

Now they all split evenly, Brit, between Bush voters and Kerry voters in 2004. Who moved you tonight? John McCain or Barack Obama?

Barack Obama and John McCain would each bring different strengths to the task.

His Democratic rival Senator Clinton and Republican candidate Senator John McCain have both called the remarks "elitist. "

Three months later, the USS John McCain DDG 56 had her towed array sonar damaged by a Chinese submarine.

In the lyrics of "Politics as Usual, " Ludacris says Republican candidate John McCain doesn't belong in "any chair unless he's paralyzed. "

Although his state is a pretty safe bet for John McCain, he says there are other races that are also important.

Since it came from a senior strategist in John McCain's previous bid for the presidency in 2000, the words carried extra weight.

The report said an online China Daily poll showed 75 per cent of Chinese prefer Barack Obama to John McCain for U. S. president.

He defeated John McCain in a landslide victory .

"Chris? It's John McCain, and you're really going to regret taking this call. "

Clinton and the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain, want to suspend federal taxes on gasoline this summer.

The House vote also represented a stinging rejection of John McCain, the Republican nominee.

These states are expected overwhelmingly to back John McCain.

But this year, he is leaning towards John McCain. The Republican candidate is a war hero, he observes.

John McCain has increased what the Obama campaign calls "angry, personal attacks. "