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McCain Ink: Woo Who?

Posted on May 13, 2008

John McCains climate-change speech at a Vestas factory in Oregon was meant to tend a branch to independents and Democrats for whom global warming is presumably a bigger concern than among most Republican voters. Tuesdays reactions to the speech suggest he didn't fully succeedmany environmentalists are still not impressed, while many Republicans seem more suspicious than ever.McCain gives a climate speech in Oregon. (Associated Press)The NYT says the climate speech, including a general call for a cap-and-trade scheme to limit greenhouse-gas emissions, puts Sen. McCain slightly to the right of c...

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