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John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, was born Aug. 29, 1936, in Panama. The son and grandson of Navy admirals, he spent more than 20 years in the Navy, a quarter of it in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. After retiring from the Navy, McCain moved to Arizona and in 1982 was elected to Congress, succeeding Republican John Rhodes, who retired. McCain served two terms in the U.S. House before he ran successfully for the Senate in 1986. He ran for president in 2000 and won the New Hampshire primary and a handful of other states before conceding the race to George W. Bush. He and his wife, Cindy, have four children. McCain also has three children from his first marriage.
John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, was born Aug. 29, 1936, in Panama. The son and grandson of Navy admirals, he spent more than 20 years in the Navy, a quarter of it in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. After retiring from the Navy, McCain moved to Arizona and in 1982 was elected to Congress, succeeding Republican John Rhodes, who retired. McCain served two terms in the U.S. House before he ran successfully for the Senate in 1986. He ran for president in 2000 and won the New Hampshire primary and a handful of other states before conceding the race to George W. Bush. He and his wife, Cindy, have four children. McCain also has three children from his first marriage.
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Senate bill aims to increase drug import safety
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators would inspect more drug manufacturing facilities in China, India and other foreign countries as part of legislation approved Thursday that aims to step up oversight of the nation's imported pharmaceutical supply....Tags: Michael F. Bennet, Bevacizumab (drug), Pharmaceuticals, Health, Science and Technology
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VIDEO: Obama campaign targets veterans, military families
Here in Battleground Virginia and elsewhere, the Obama campaign has launched a full-scale offensive to capture votes of veterans and military families. The campaign has already kicked off a grassroots organizing effort called "Veterans and Military...Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Michelle Obama, Memorial Day, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Politics
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Poll: Government should do more to ensure access to fresh, local foods
A vast majority of Americans say they eat more whole grains and fresh produce than they did five years ago, but many believe the federal government needs to do more to ensure greater access to locally produced fresh food, according to a new survey. ...
Tags: Moody's Corporation, Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Consumers, Healthy Diet
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Analysis: Romney's 'magic number' to dodge Latino doom
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney won’t carry the Latino vote this year. No Republican nominee for president ever has. But improving his margins among Latinos is crucial to his chances of defeating President Obama, as new poll numbers out of Florida show....
Tags: Mitt Romney, Primaries, Social Issues, Charity, DREAM Act
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Poll: Obama still faces economic hurdles in reelection battle
It's become one of the core questions in a presidential reelection year — are you better off now than you were four years ago? For President Obama, a new poll has an ominous answer. Thirty percent of respondents in a ABC News/Washington Post...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, LLC, Polls, Republican Party, Politics
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Rev. Wright ad proposal given bipartisan scorn on Sunday shows
Going against the partisan tendencies in Washington, both sides of the aisle readily took the opportunity to condemn the recently uncovered “super PAC” ad proposal that would have attempted to bring Rev. Jeremiah Wright into the campaign...
Tags: CNN (tv network), Mitt Romney, David Axelrod, ABC (tv network), TD Ameritrade Holdings Corp.
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Citizens United II
"While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics." That penultimate sentence in now-retired Justice John Paul Stevens' brilliant dissent in the...
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New Obama ad targets blue-collar men
For 45 years Mike Castellani worked in the steel industry, more than 30 of them at Bethlehem Steel's cavernous and iconic No. 2 Machine Shop. He toiled amid red-hot shards of steel, building massive components for theU.S. Navy's nuclear aircraft...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Companies and Corporations, Bain Capital, LLC, Rick Santorum, Economy, Business and Finance
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Faux-raging for a story
WASHINGTON — What a difference four years make. When Barack Obama was running for president, he successfully managed to distance himself from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., leaving his Chicago church during the campaign and shrugging off suggestions...
Tags: Racism, Republican Party, Politics, Barack Obama, Elections
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Welcome to the DIY generation
Barack Obama wanted to be a transformational president, and as we head into the general election, he may have gotten his wish — just not the way he or his supporters might have thought. Obama seems to have transformed the cohort of 18- to 29-year-...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Customs and Tradition, Arts and Culture, Politics, Tea Party Movement
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Romney calls Obama's economics 'morally wrong' in Iowa
DES MOINES – Returning to the state that launched Barack Obama’s path to the presidency, Mitt Romney went on offense Tuesday, accusing his rival of carelessly driving the country into "a financial crisis of both debt and spending that threaten...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Mitt Romney, Jill Biden, Elections, Gays and Lesbians
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Mitt Romney Biography (Republican)
Full Name: Willard M. "Mitt" Romney Born: March 12, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan Official Website: www.mittromney.com mittromney @mittromney Biography: Mitt Romney's 2012 White House bid is his second attempt to win the Oval Office. During the 2008...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, LLC, Government, Politics, Brigham Young University
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