“Hedging Their Bets?”

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Concord, NH

ON THE EVE OF what John McCain called “the most important debate” of the intensifying battle for the Republican presidential nomination, the Arizona Senator took a polite but unmistakable shot at his two chief rivals, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. McCain suggested that Giuliani and Romney were “hedging their bets” on the troop surge in Iraq- and suggested that the best explanation for their lack of enthusiasm is politics.

McCain has been campaigning for the last two days in New Hampshire before participating in the Republican presidential debate tonight at the University of New Hampshire at Durham, broadcast on the Fox News Channel.

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