Bush and McCain - Much Alike on the Issues
Sen. John McCain has spent decades burnishing his public relations persona as a political maverick. But much of the veneer of that image seems to be wearing away as reporters and others look for the real John McCain.

Public school employees have long known that the two shared similar beliefs on federal education policy. They both support vouchers - using public money to pay for private schools. They both support No Child Left Behind - especially its flawed one-size-fits-all testing provisions. And they both opposed expanding the federal program that provides health care coverage to America's most at-risk youngsters. Now their lockstep political beliefs are showing up in lots of areas - the economy, taxes, Iraq, and health care.

"Their positions are virtually indistinguishable," says Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution, in a story posted on the Web site of Bloomberg News. Visit this link to learn "the rest of the story."