[unseen1]

and my response is that the polls show every GOPer getting beat by Obama. EVERYONE. If we go by polls we might as will hang it up now and just give Obama the election.

[monocle]

Your response was exactly what I was expecting. It may well be that all polls show Obama is winning which suggests that we attempt to pick the strongest candidate we can and further suggests we should not choose a candidate with high negative ratings. I agree with Sarah on most, if not all, of the issues but I am not willing to nominate someone who may hand the election to Obama.

I don't if you are old enough to remember the Johnson/Goldwater election in which after the election polls showed a majority of the public held views more closely to Goldwater than Johnson. Which goes to show how powerful images created by the media are and how these images influence the outcome of elections.