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May 07, 2008

McCain on Stewart, Carter on Leno

On "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" this evening, John McCain was thrown for a loop by one of Stewart's questions.

"Sen. Hillary Clinton," Stewart said, per ABC News. "If you choose Sen. Clinton, you would win this election."

"That’s one I never contemplated," McCain said of the New York senator who is running for the nomination of the Democratic party.

"Do you want to say into the camera right now that you would do that?" Stewart asked the candidate.

"No," McCain said.. "I don’t want to look in the camera and say that I would ever do that."

Stewart also asked McCain whether he felt bad for criticizing Barack Obama because Hamas said they would like to see him president. McCain gave no inkling that he was backing off the statement.

On "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," Jimmy Carter said that the Florida and Michigan delegations should not be seated because they "disqualified themselves."

He also doubted that superdelegates would decide against the candidate with the most pledged delegates, states and popular vote.

“I can’t imagine that the superdelegates would go against them,” Carter said. “It would be a catastrophe for the party.”

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