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Is John McCain "electable"?(Inside Track)(John McCain)(Brief article)

The New American

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The Republican presidential race has narrowed to three candidates--John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul. Of the three, McCain holds what appears to be an almost insurmountable lead in the delegate count.

The ascendancy of McCain would have been hard to imagine last fall, when the pundits were claiming his campaign was all but dead. Then McCain won the nation's first primary in New Hampshire, and the momentum he gained there helped him win elsewhere. But would McCain be able to win in November, should he become the GOP's standard-bearer? Many Republican voters undoubtedly think he can. Yet McCain's stance on the Iraq War presents him with a challenging hurdle. McCain not only supports the war, he is on record as saying that we did the right thing by attacking Iraq in the first place, and ...

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