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A familiar McCain back on old stomping ground
By Alexander Bolton and Susan Crabtree
Posted: 01/07/09 08:28 PM [ET]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), fresh off his disappointing bid for the White House, returned to a familiar role in the Senate on Wednesday, shaking up his own party and reaching across the aisle to Democrats.


In a span of hours, McCain told Republicans in a closed-door meeting they needed to tone down the party's anti-immigration rhetoric, then appeared at a news conference with his old friend Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) to lead a bipartisan call to crack down on earmarks.

McCain told colleagues their poor image among Hispanics, which he attributed to bitter intra-party squabbles over immigration reform, dealt his campaign a devastating blow.


[b]“He talked about his own race and the devastating loss of Hispanic voters and how that arose on the rhetoric on immigration,â€