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McCain Embraces Maverick, Reform Mantles in Accepting Nod

By Lauren W. Whittington
Roll Call Staff
Sept. 5, 2008, 12:32 a.m.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) accepted his party’s presidential nomination Thursday night in front of a fired-up crowd of party loyalists, with a speech that weaved the former prisoner of war’s personal story into a narrative that sought to portray him as a fighter, a reformer and a maverick.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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