McCain Looking Safer if He Gets a GOP Primary Challenge from the Right

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Sen. John McCain is comfortably back on top of J. D. Hayworth should the conservative talk show host make a run at him from the right, with McCain leading Hayworth 53 percent to 31 percent, while 4 percent back former Minuteman leader Chris Simcox, 3 percent prefer some other candidate and 8 percent are undecided, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Jan. 20

In November, the two ran about even.

The Arizona Daily Star reported Friday that Hayworth was getting into the race. McCain has not sat on his hands when it comes to that possibility. He launched a radio ad attacking Hayworth's record and Congress and has arranged for his former running mate, Sarah Palin, to campaign for him in the state in March.

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Filed Under: Senate, John McCain, Polls, Sarah Palin, Poll Watch, 2010 Elections

Tagged: arizona senate race, ArizonaSenateRace, j. d. hayworth, J.D.Hayworth

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