 He was a member of Republican Main Street Partnership, a Republican group which presents what it describes as centrist Republican solutions in politics.McCain's 2006 rating by "The Almanac of American Politics" (2008) on Economic Policy was 64% conservative, 35% liberal (52% conservative, 47% liberal in 2005).McCain fleshed out the main points of his economic plan in an April 15, 2008 speech at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania.