The Panama Canal Zone was unquestionably U.S. territory when John McCain was born there. This dull question will hopefully never come up again.
Someone will post it again.....you may count on it.
A similar problem was presented when Goldwater ran in ‘64. He was born in the Territory of Arizona, and not of course in one of the United States. The “problem” became moot very quickly when it became evident that his chance for election was nil. The sniping talk dried up. It would be nice, though, if there were more precision in the written laws controlling these things. Let’s ask Al Gore if he knows of any “controlling legal authority”.
When I looked at the source of this article, I had to conclude that it will come up many more times to come. *sigh*