Between now and the election, the web site will point out a different McCain flip-flop, revealing McCain’s style of switching positions as he switches audiences. McCain has flip-flopped on more than enough issues to provide a daily tally, like immigration, ear mark spending, climate change, “maverickyness” and even torture.

“John McCain’s been on so many sides of so many issues that it defies geometry,” said Blake Morlock, Communications Director for the Glassman campaign. “It’s done nothing to help create Arizona jobs or help under water homeowners.”

McCain’s brand may change again as he heads into the general election, while Glassman’s campaign will focus on a single theme: “What’s best for Arizona.”

“My focus is squarely on the people who will send me to the U.S. Senate,” Glassman said. “We do that by bringing people together to move Arizona forward.”

SEE JOHN MCCAIN’S FLIP-FLOPS HERE

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McCain made the comments on Fox News Sunday, dismissing senators who oppose extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy for the exact reason he opposed enacting those cuts in the first place.

In 2001, after failing to gain support for an amendment that would make the wealthy pay a higher tax rate than they do now, McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. In his floor speech he explained why: “I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief.”

SEE THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD HERE

This past weekend, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked McCain if he would support extending the Bush tax cuts for the middle-class while allowing tax cuts for the wealthy few to expire in order to pay for small business tax relief. McCain mocked the idea as “class warfare.”

SEE THE VIDEO HERE

“John McCain actually threw himself under the proverbial bus,” said Blake Morlock, Communications Director for the Rodney Glassman for U.S. Senate campaign. “It makes one wonder what positions he will take the next time political winds change. He’s apparently capable of shape-shifting at will.”

Glassman, a Democrat running against McCain in the general election, opposes allowing the Bush tax cuts on the middle-class to expire. This would constitute the largest middle-class tax increase in U.S. history — a tax increase McCain apparently would let happen.

“I oppose John McCain’s tax hike on struggling middle-class families,” Glassman said. “I would like to see all the tax cuts extended until the economy recovers, but if I have to choose between people like John McCain and me keeping our tax cuts or middle-class families keeping theirs? I choose the middle class.”

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“You can tell a lot about someone by how they serve corn,” she said. “Do they just say, ‘Here it is,’ or do they say: ‘How are you doing? Would you like another ear?’ ”

One of her most enthusiastic servers on Saturday was Rodney Glassman, a Democrat from Tucson who is not given much of a chance of toppling John McCain, Arizona’s senior senator. But when it came to giving out corn, Mr. Glassman was accomplished, which endeared him to what was not an easy crowd.

“People want leaders who will serve them,” Ms. Zambrano said.

Mr. Glassman, a former Tucson councilman in his first bid for statewide office, strapped on an apron, slipped on a hot mitt and grabbed a vat of ears. He offered up both the corn and himself, and got more takers for the corn, illustrating the challenges that Democrats face in an election season in which the Washington establishment is viewed as being in the mud.

“Some more corn?” Mr. Glassman asked, working his way down the long picnic benches full of eaters, many of them wearing plastic bibs to keep the piles of beef, coleslaw and corn off their shirts. He received grunt after grunt in the affirmative.

Then he would offer up his candidacy. “I’m Rodney Glassman, and I’m running for the U.S. Senate,” he said, giving little hint of the long-shot odds he faces in trying to defeat Mr. McCain, who has a healthy amount of campaign money left over from his failed 2008 presidential bid.

Mr. Glassman heard from voters who were out of work, who were angry at the White House, who were concerned about illegal immigration and who felt that politicians had lost touch with the people who elected them.

“What party are you?” grumbled John Stropko, a dentist from Prescott. He continued eating while Mr. Glassman gave his spiel that party did not matter all that much in this election and that the issue of reviving the economy was one that rose above partisanship.

Once the candidate had moved on, Mr. Stropko said, “The biggest problem is he’s a Democrat.”

Clarence Preston, 88, a retired AT&T worker from Prescott, quizzed Mr. Glassman on his views on abortion and immigration. Mr. Preston said later that he wished the candidate had been more conservative, but he was willing to at least give him a listen. “He sounded sincere,” Mr. Preston said. “I like that he’s here among the common people.”

Mr. Glassman had his lines down pat. If education came up, he would gesture toward his pregnant wife, Sasha, and talk about how, with a little girl on the way, he had an interest in Arizona’s future.

“Do you know the definition of insanity?” he asked. “It’s when you do the same thing over and over and expect a different result.”

He, of course, meant that Mr. McCain keeps getting elected. The prognosticators expect the same result in November. Still, Mr. Glassman worked the crowd as though change was looming.

“Are your hands clean?” he asked one woman, who nodded as she ate. “Well, stick your hand in my pocket and take a card.”

Once she had fished out a business card, he had the table roaring when he said, “I’m the only politician who lets you stick your hand in my pocket instead of the other way around.”

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