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SPRINGFIELD, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Friday he fears that al Qaeda or another extremist group might attempt spectacular attacks in Iraq to try to tilt the U.S. election against him.

Like all of the presidential hopefuls, Arizona Sen. John McCains positions on the Iraq war have evolved as the war has extended. McCain still defends his Senate vote in October 2002 that helped authorize the war, but he has been a critical cheerleader of U.S. efforts. -�[Read�more]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama took aim on Thursday at potential White House opponent John McCain, accusing the Arizona senator of switching his stance on tax cuts in order to help his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is trying to help Sen. John McCain with conservative voters, and two of President Bushs top advisers are taking a role in the McCain campaign. But it may be an awkward fit. -�[Read�more]

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabees conservative supporters are crucial to the general-election hopes of the GOPs presumptive nominee, Sen. John McCain. Huckabee says he hopes Republicans can "come together" to elect McCain. -�[Read�more]

BOSTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain says he will emphasize national security issues from Afghanistan to global climate change on a visit to Europe and the Middle East next week.

Given John McCain’s efforts to portray himself as an opponent of influence peddling in Washington, his close ties to lobbyists are certain to be a continuing issue through the presidential campaign. -�[Read�more]

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain criticized his Democratic rivals on Tuesday for pledging to renegotiate a hemispheric trade treaty that Democrats blame for U.S. manufacturing job losses.

Top current advisers to Sen. John McCains presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee. -�[Read�more]

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Republican candidate John McCain set plans on Monday to visit Israel, Britain and France next week in a trip likely to play up the national security credentials he hopes will carry him into the White House.

Sen. John McCain worked to replenish his campaign coffers Monday, attempting to narrow the fundraising advantage Democrats are expected to have going into the general election.

Republican Sen. John McCains choice of a running mate is shaping up to be a significant issue for his presidential campaign. On the Democrats side, is a ticket including both Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama likely? -�[Read�more]

John McCain has time he can use to unite his party and transform his operation into a general election machine, though the lull could also have drawbacks. -�[Read�more]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John McCain, the Republican candidate for U.S. president, plans to travel to Europe and the Middle East for 10 days in mid-March as part of a congressional delegation, officials familiar with the trip said on Sunday.

John McCain’s campaign distanced itself Saturday from a supporter who told an Iowa newspaper that terrorists would be “dancing in the streets” if Barack Obama is elected president. -�[Read�more]

Hot dogs at the White House, a kazoo rendition of "Hail to the Chief" and a failed teleprompter. All figured in Sen. John McCains week as he continued down the campaign trail after clinching enough delegates for the Republican presidential nomination. -�[Read�more]

Senator John McCain, describing himself as “conservative Republican,” quickly dismissed “liberal Democrat” Senator John Kerry as a possible running mate. -�[Read�more]

Iraq veteran Roger Martinez says in the Democrats weekly radio address that John McCain should not win the election because he would prolong the Iraq war. -�[Read�more]

Sen. John McCains campaign has a plan to keep him in the public eye while providing what aides hope is a contrast with the Democrats who are still fighting for their partys nomination.

Even before John McCain clinched the Republican presidential nomination, an obscure liberal group fired the first shot of whats expected to be a wildly expensive advertising war in the White House race. -�[Read�more]

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