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Published: 01/22/10

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

By  Bruce Drake - Politics Daily
McCain Looking Safer if He Gets a GOP Primary Challenge from the Right

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 ...

Published: 11/23/09

Pressure From the Right: GOP Candidates Bet On Obama Fatigue

By  Jill Lawrence - Politics Daily
Pressure From the Right: GOP Candidates Bet On Obama Fatigue

John McCain rails against a bipartisan global warming bill two years after sponsoring one himself? He says he's "dear friends" with Sarah Palin and enjoyed her book? The one that trashes his 2008 presidential campaign? Strange, I thought. Then I saw a poll that showed the sometime maverick-moderate vulnerable to a primary challenge next year from the right.The Republican primary process has triggered an epidemic of identity crises among prominent and promising Republicans. Between Sarah Palin, tea parties, and the Club For Growth, there are Senate candidates scurrying rightward on everything ...

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