Posted on 05/06/2015 12:15:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
John McCain's troubles with conservatives have him in a whole lot of trouble for reelection next year. Even among Republican primary voters just 41% approve of the job he's doing to 50% who disapprove. Only 37% of primary voters say they generally support him for renomination, compared to 51% who say they would prefer someone 'more conservative.'
It's his struggles on the right that have McCain imperiled. He gets narrowly positive reviews from both 'somewhat conservative' (51/37) and moderate (50/44) Republicans. But among those who identify themselves as 'very conservative,' just 21% approve of the job McCain is doing to 71% who disapprove. 83% of voters within that group say they would be more inclined to vote for an alternative on McCain's right next year compared to only 11% who actually say they would vote for McCain.
The good news for McCain is that he does lead all the prospective primary challengers we tested against him in head to head match ups, although some of them would clearly start out as toss ups. McCain leads David Schweikert 40/39, Matt Salmon 42/40, Kelli Ward 44/31, and Christine Jones 48/27. Those tepid leads may be largely a function of the limited name recognition of his potential opponents though. Salmon has 52% name recognition, Schweikert 47%, Jones 44%, and Ward just 27%. Salmon (a +28 favorability at 40/12) and Schweikert (a +15 favorability at 31/16) are both far more popular than McCain among the voters who are familiar with them.
McCain will have an immense war chest that may scare off his stronger potential challengers- but it's clear that the distrust he faces from conservatives makes him at least hypothetically vulnerable to a foe on the right.
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Former Governor Palin, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Backstabber getting stabbed in the front.
Hopefully the wacko birds will take McCain down.
He should know when to come home.
Call it a day McLame; go home and take that wacky daughter with you.
Juan’s running on the “I” party ticket....”I” as in “ISIS”
all this jerk needs to do is demand ‘where’s the damn fence’ again and he’ll be a shoe-in
All he will have to do is tell people he was in the military, and he will get plenty of idiot GOPers that will forget how much he has screwed all of us.
If a relatively unknown beats McCain in the primary then the dims will see an opportunity to flip a red state senate seat. I think they will try to get red raul grijalva, Gabby Giffords or her hubby to run for the seat.
The gears are already starting to turn. There is an attempt to get legalizion of marijuana on the ballot. That tactic gets out the young and low info voters who would definitley vote in favor for the dims across the board.
RE: All he will have to do is tell people he was in the military
Hey, even General MacArthur said old soldiers fade away.
Time for John McCain to do so too.
He’ll choose to retire rather than be primaried.
I wish I still lived in Arizona just so I could campaign against him and spit in his general direction every so often.
He’ll be 80 years old come 2016. What more does he want? Another 6 years in DC?
Sheeesh!
Good LORD I hope so. This old coot thinks that old coot needs to go to pasture.
He’s the Juan we’be been waiting for.
It's an act of mercy to let him retire in peace.
Democrats voting in the open primary will ensure John Mcain the nomination no matter what.
But he’s not retiring, bud.
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