McCain Won’t Campaign Against Colorado’s Mark Udall This Year

U.S. Senators Mark Udall, left, and John McCain attend the opening of the Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Delegates will be discussing pressing security issues, including the... U.S. Senators Mark Udall, left, and John McCain attend the opening of the Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Delegates will be discussing pressing security issues, including the impact of the American presidential election, the turmoil in Syria, cybersecurity and modern warfare. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Andrew Vaughan) MORE LESS
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Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who has a robust stumping schedule for Republican Senate candidates through the November midterms, told the Arizona Republic over the weekend that one incumbent Democratic senator he won’t be campaigning against is Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO).

“Between now and the election, I’ve hardly got a day off,” McCain told the newspaper. “I’ll be campaigning all over Arizona and then all over the country as well. … I’m not going to go to Colorado.”

McCain has a longstanding friendship with Udall, the result particularly of his relationship with Udall’s father Mo, who was a congressman from Arizona. One of the chapters of McCain’s memoir was titled “Mo” and described how the elder Udall helped him navigate Washington, D.C.

He is slated to make appearances in Kansas, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Oregon over the next month and a half. But not Colorado.

The Republic asked McCain if his abstention was a favor to Udall. “And his father, yes,” McCain said.


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  1. I’m guessing McCain just used his last drop of integrity. (I’m assuming he at least had a drop left)

  2. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    Robust campaign schedule for mcPalin.

    CindyLou 's just trying to keep him out of their houses…

  3. It’s the eyebrows. Men with bushy eyebrows like other men with bushy eyebrows.

  4. He must be losing pretty badly if McCain won’t campaign for him.

  5. Read the article again.

    McCain won’t campaign against Udall—or for Cory Gardner, who is the right-wing Nutter GOP candidate.

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