John McCain

(Washington, D.C.) -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) predicted on Thursday that there will be a constitutional challenge to the provision in the health care bill under consideration in Congress that would require all Americans to buy health insurance. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government has never before mandated that Americans purchase any good or service.

When asked by CNSNews.com on Thursday where in the Constitution is Congress given the authority to mandate that people buy health insurance, McCain said, “That is an excellent question and I’m sure that if they pass health care legislation, I think there would be a challenge”...

Washington (AP) - Sen. John McCain is pressing President Barack Obama to make a decision quickly on sending additional troops to Afghanistan, saying U.S allies are nervous and military commanders are frustrated.

McCain said in a nationally broadcast interview Wednesday that the war policy in Afghanistan "as been reviewed time and again" and that it's now time to act.

Interviewed on CBS's "The Early Show," the Arizona Republican said the drawn-out decision-making process on Afghanistan "is not helpful to our effort" in the wartorn nation...

Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, said the White House would be committing "an error of historic proportions" if it doesn't accede to Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's request for tens of thousands more troops in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California upped the pressure for a major Afghanistan troop surge from the Democratic side, saying it makes no sense to stay in Afghanistan and not grant the general the forces he says are necessary.

Mr. McCain said he doesn't think the United States can win in Afghanistan unless President Obama sends at least 40,000 more troops to augment the 68,000 scheduled to be there by year's end - as suggested by Gen. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan...

As they enter their final day of campaigning before Election Day, Sen. John
McCain is trying to swing undecided voters in key battleground states, while
Sen. Barack Obama is staying on the offensive by campaigning in territory that
is usually safely Republican.

In addition, both campaigns are ratcheting up their
get-out-the-vote efforts, as election officials predict record turnouts -- and
long lines -- on Tuesday.

McCain on Monday hopes he can shift enough voters in a
handful of critical states to give him enough votes to pull a come-from-behind
victory...

FOX News/Rasmussen Reports battleground polling this week shows some improvements for John McCain but the overall results still leave Barack Obama in a better position on the eve of the election.

Obama now leads in two of the battleground states while the candidates are tied or within a point of each other in four. At one level, that's an improvement for McCain. Last week, he was even in just two states while trailing in four.

But while it's an improvement for the GOP candidate, this week's results don't alter the underlying dynamic of the race. All six of these battleground states were Republican states in 2004 and McCain probably needs to win all six to capture the White House...

Former GOP presidential candidate Sam Brownback is kicking off a "Floridians of Faith for McCain" tour this week. The Kansas senator makes stops in Maitland, Port St. Lucie and Pembroke Pines on Wednesday. Brownback vists Ave Maria on Thursday...

The presidential race tightened after the
final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning
less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows
McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in
the election homestretch.

The
poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent,
supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in
recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as
Republican-leaning voters drifted home to their party...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has a slim 2-point lead on Republican rival John McCain in a tight White House race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

Obama led McCain by 47 percent to 45 percent in the national poll, within the margin of error of 2.8 percentage points. Obama led by 3 points in Tuesday's poll...

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain on Sunday gingerly embraced a
newly negotiated congressional deal for a $700 billion bailout of the hobbled
financial industry...

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ended three days of suspense on Friday morning and
announced that he will leave bailout negotiations in Washington and fly to
Oxford, Miss., for the opening presidential debate.

McCain had previously
said that he would suspend his campaign until an agreement was reached on the
administration's $700 billion mortgage proposal...