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Article: A McCain Mutiny?(Arizona senator and presidential candidate John McCain)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- December 13, 1999
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John McCain wants to be president, but political insiders in Arizona can be heard uttering discouraging words about his conservative credentials as well as his temperament.
As polls show Sen. John McCain surging toward parity with Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the key presidential-primary state of New Hampshire, clouds loom over McCain's prospects in his home state of Arizona, where the electorate can be as prickly as the desert flora and opinions of McCain are as starkly drawn as the local topography.
Weary of the pack of Republican also-rans, the national press is attempting to present McCain as being on the verge of becoming a viable contender for the ...