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WASHINGTON -- Two years after running against President Barack Obama, Senator John McCain says he sees a change. Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation," McCain expressed optimism that Obama will lead Democrats and Republicans to find common ground on key issues.(snip) Asked if the push to repeal health care reform is a waste of time -- because Senate Democrats will block repeal and, should it pass, the president would veto it -- McCain said, "We need to have a vote on it because we promised the people we would. We campaigned that we would `repeal and replace'. We have to...

U.S. Sen. John McCain said it’s too early to know whether Republicans will seize control of Congress this fall or if voters will retire President Barack Obama after one term. But the 2008 Republican presidential nominee said the federal spending excesses of his own party turned too many fiscal conservatives into independent voters. “A lot of voters are becoming independents,” McCain, a two-time New Hampshire presidential primary winner, said Friday. “We blew a lot of opportunity during the Bush years in failing to show that we were fiscally responsible.“We paid a price for it, and still haven’t been able to...