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McCain Not Sold on Ticket-Balancing

Friday, February 8th, 2008

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The GOP front-runner says he wouldn't necessarily choose a running mate from a different geographic region.

"I think former President Clinton and Vice President Gore showed us you don't have to be regionally different."

Also says he hasn't dismissed Huckabee's bid, again called Democrats' Iraq policy "catastrophic."

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