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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 08 > McCain’s free ride is over, and he worked hard to exploit it — but was it enough?

McCain’s free ride is over, and he worked hard to exploit it — but was it enough?

By Matt Stearns / The Bulletin
June 8, 2008

LACLEDE, Mo. — For nearly three months now, as Democrats quibbled and quarreled in their quest for a presidential nominee, Republican John McCain had a luxury rare in politics: time.

Time to unite a party often suspicious of him, to sketch a vision for the country, to hone attacks on....

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