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Who Wins the Flip-Flop Primary?

Romney and McCain spar over mind-changing label

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 5, 2008 3:20 PM CST

(Newser) – John McCain and Mitt Romney are calling each other flip-floppers in new online ads that mimic a cutting anti-John Kerry 2004 campaign commercial, the Post’s Michael Dobbs reports. The ads copy its use of the "Blue Danube" Waltz to mock each other's changing... Read full story »

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