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McCain is the personification of a "conviction" candidate-- to his own detriment declining to reverse positions. It is fairly obvious that he has contempt for Romney's approach-- you recall his "even numbered years" crack-- in refashioning himself to fit the conservative open niche(open then, not now) in the race. Romney's repudiation of campaign finance reform and immigration -- two favored items for McCain -- has of course been particularly galling to McCain. I do not believe they have converged on immigration, at least not judging from the Univision debate. McCain tactically has accepted a border security first approach but is determined when that is all done to allow those still here to come forward and start a path to citizenship. Romney does not.

As for your suggestion, I think it would be interesting to go back to 2002 and see where everyone was and how far they've come but I have given up predicting whether that or anythig else would impact voters.

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