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Article: Early lessons: John McCain: from carpetbagger to presidential contender.
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- Campaigns & Elections
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- May 1, 2007
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John McCain's first congressional campaign almost killed him.
Seven years after returning to the United States as a decorated war hero, McCain set out to win a congressional seat in Phoenix, the western boomtown that his wealthy new bride called home. The fair-skinned Republican spent the summer of 1981 knocking on 15,000 doors and asking for votes under a blistering Arizona sun.
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When McCain mounted another campaign nineteen years later--this time for president of the United States in 2000--he announced that his doctors had detected a potentially-deadly skin cancer on his arm and temple. Many who know McCain believe the ...