Mr McCain was expected to win yesterday's Republican primary in Arizona, the state for which he has been a senator since 1986, but the contest in Michigan was too close to call last night, with both sides hoping for victory. Campaigning in Michigan, where polls showed Mr McCain to have a narrow advantage, Mr Bush conceded that the race would be close. Hundreds of miles away in Arizona, Mr McCain cast a vote for himself. He was widely expected to win comfortably, despite the opposition of Arizona governor Jane Dee Hull, who supports Mr Bush. That's why we're having so much fun.
Every day is do or die.
Mr Bush laid into Mr McCain about phone calls in which, he alleged, Mr McCain's supporters labelled the Texas governor as anti-Roman Catholic for giving a speech at the Bob Jones university in South Carolina, a notoriously sectarian college whose graduates include the Rev Ian Paisley. More than a quarter of the electorate in Michigan is Catholic. I don't appreciate it. My brother's a Catholic. And there's no excuse for that kind of politics.