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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  MCCAIN IN REPUBLICAN STRAW POLL EMBARRASSMENT Sat Mar 11 2006 12:50:33 ET Senator John McCain of Arizona told his supporters at a 2008 straw poll event this weekend to write in President Bush [?] as a sign of support, leaving many sputtering. "For the next three years, with our country at war, he's our president and the only one who needs our support," McCain told nearly 2,000 party activists from 26 states gathered in Memphis. Realizing that the national political media more fully descended on the Southern Republican Leadership Conference than the McCain team had anticipated, the McCain camp moved to discredited the straw poll by asking delegates to vote for Bush, insiders claim. Instead of stopping the momentum of Majority Leader Bill Frist - widely anticipated to win the straw poll - the move seems to exposed the McCain camp's insincerity about their position with the base. One activist said, "McCain voted against all the Bush tax cuts... maybe he should have voted for the president then, instead of waiting for political stunt to try and distract." Developing... |
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