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McCain, Clinton for gas-tax holiday; Obama's not

For Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who have scant policy differences between them, tackling record gas prices is shaping up to be one of those disagreements - and a potential pitfall for Obama. Republican John McCain was the first out of the gate with a gas-tax holiday proposal to ease the pressure at the pump - a plan to eliminate the 18.4-cents-a-gallon federal tax on gasoline between Memorial...

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