John McCain

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2008 USA Presidential Candidates.
Barack Obama
John McCain

John Sidney McCain III was born in 1936. John graduated from the United States naval Academy in 1958 at the age of 22. He became a naval aviator and flew attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he narrowly escaped death in the 1967 Forrestal fire. For five and a half years he was held as a prisoner of war by Vietnamese troops. While being held prisoner, he is known to have experienced torture. In 1981 Mr. McCain retired from the Navy and was elected to the United States House of Representatives the following year, as a Republican from Arizona. After two terms in the US House, he was elected into the U.S senate in 1986. He was succesfully re-elected in 1992, 1998, and 2004. John McCain ran for the presidentcy of the United States in 2008, where he was defeated by his rival, and fellow senator, Democrat Barack Obama (Illinois), with the Electoral College vote being 365-173 and a popular vote total of 69,456,897 to 59,934,814.

Johns Voting Record -

Voted NO on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
Voted YES on loosening restrictions on cell phone wiretapping. (Oct 2001)
Voted NO on repealing tax subsidy for companies which move US jobs offshore. (Mar 2005)
Voted YES on killing restrictions on violent videos to minors.
Voted YES on maintaining current law: guns sold without trigger locks.
Voted NO on requiring CIA reports on detainees & interrogation methods.

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