McCain Refines Plan for Election

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McCain Refines Plan for Election
Associated Press | February 09, 2008

WASHINGTON - Republican John McCain plans to run a general election campaign as steadfast protector of the United States in the face of terrorism as well as a crusader against big government. The Democrats, he says, offer neither.

"They would govern this country in a way that will, in my opinion, take this country backward," the likely GOP nominee said this week in a speech to conservative activists that served as his opening argument for a fall showdown with either Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama.

With chief rival Mitt Romney out of the race, McCain is gearing up for the most wide-open presidential election in half a century and the first since 1960 in which a senator will win the White House.

As McCain pivots from the primary campaign to the general election, he not only must unite disaffected Republicans who view his independent streak warily but also lead a dispirited GOP against a far more energized Democratic Party.

Neither is a small task, Republicans say.


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