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McCain courts conservatives after Romney quits candidacy

GOP puts focus on US security

By Scott Helman and Sasha Issenberg
Globe Staff / February 8, 2008

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WASHINGTON - Senator John McCain yesterday became the presumptive Republican nominee when former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney quit the presidential race. McCain immediately began courting skeptical conservatives to help him prepare to take on an energized Democratic Party in the general election campaign. (Full article: 1355 words)

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