Yes, he did.
But Rep. Ron Paul still got 16 percent of the vote, and former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee 11 percent. As The Boston Globe points out, that’s not terribly unusual:
In 2000, the last contested Republican presidential race, competitors were still winning sizable shares of the vote well after George W. Bush had secured the […]

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During his four day tour of New Orleans, Sen. John McCain said today that the Bush administration completely failed in their response to Hurricane Katrina. His long list of mistakes included “unqualified people in charge” and “a failure of communications.”
“We know we didn’t have the right kind of leadership … where government agencies were getting […]

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Fresh from her Pennsylvania victory, Sen. Hillary Clinton is urging voters to consider not only who would be the best president, but who would be able to defeat Sen. John McCain in the general election.
Despite the fact that Sen. Barack Obama has won more states, more delegates and more of the cumulative popular vote, Clinton […]

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By Will Mari, SeattlePoliticore
Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and now the “victory chair” for the Republican National Committee and Sen. John McCain, swung through town this past Thursday.
As one of McCain’s campaign surrogates, she is tasked with raising money for the RNC and getting the base fired up for the presidential election.

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In the Democrats’ weekly radio address, Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean slammed Sen. John McCain by closely associating him with two things many Americans want to see gone: the poor economy and President George W. Bush.
Dean said McCain’s recent remarks about the economy sounded like the “same Republican policies” the nation’s seen from President Bush:
“If […]

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One of the more interesting side effects of the so-called “Bittergate” remarks by Sen. Obama (and Clinton’s beer-guzzling response in a bar in Indiana) is what Daniel Henninger from The Wall Street Journal is calling the end, or at least the beginning of the end, of the “culture wars” of the 1990s. With Democrats finally […]

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Sen. John McCain today discussed new tax plans, including a suspension of gas taxes, in a speech strategically delivered on the deadline date for filing tax returns.
He called for Congress to suspend the 18.4 cent federal gas tax and 24.4 cent diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day, when summer travelers feel the pain […]

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The Clinton campaign wasted no time with this one:

Obama gave Clinton an opening, and she’s going for the jugular. Seems like a smart move - but is it enough?
I first saw that ad on Daily Kos, and this is part of the commentary that accompanied it:
Seem to me kind of a lame ad. […]

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The hubbub surrounding the upcoming (May 1) release of liberal author Cliff Schecter’s book on John McCain has drudged up, so to speak, his subject’s legendary temper. In this story from the U.S. News and World Report, Liz Hollaron highlights some of recent developments on a front that could hurt McCain in the fall. 
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John McCain has a temper. That’s not exactly a secret, but the extent of his formidable nature has not yet been explored by the Beltway press. But a new book threatens to do add some serious ammo to the charge that the Arizona senator can lose his cool … often. The Real McCain, by Cliff […]

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