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In 2008, did you ever think you would be president obama's republican deal maker? >> no, because i thought i would be -- no, but i worked on a lot of issues with president clinton, as well as a republican president. so it's not as if i haven't done this before. >> and like before, it made mccain especially unpopular with the conservative base of his party. >> you could say there are two john mccains. the one who campaigns like a conservative and the one who legislates like a liberal. >> in 2010, conservative j.d. hayworth gave mccain his toughest senate challenge ever. vulnerable in the gop pr...