Posted on 01/12/2008 7:35:16 AM PST by jack_napier
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- John McCain's victory in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary appears to be paying off.
The senator from Arizona is the front-runner in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination, according to the first national poll taken after the New Hampshire primary.
McCain has the support of 34 percent of registered Republicans in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey out Friday. That's a 21-point jump from the last CNN/Opinion Research poll, taken in December, well before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary earlier this month.
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We’ll have to see how McCain does in republican only primaries. If he doesn’t get the nomination, and Huckabee does, we’re still screwed. Huckabee is as Fred descrided him in the debate and he’s got a record of appeasement towards convicted murderers. He’ll get crushed if he goes up againstthe clinton machine. The more I learn about the guy the more I dislike Huckabee.
All that it tells me is, that people are fickle.
I’m at the point where I don’t know what the American people want anymore. I thought the nation was solidly against amensty. And now McCain and Huckabee are the gop frontrunners. How can conservatives like Fred of hunter be so far back in the polls? Conservatives are suppossed to make decisions based on fact and reasons, not silly bleeding heart reasons.
Memo to CNN: STEP AWAY FROM THE CRACK PIPE!]
(/sarcasm off)
When McCain loses he will become spokesman for depends rather than viagra.
McCain is SOOOooooooo Bob Dole.
simple.
The dinosaur media is not dead.
MSNBC has more viewers than FR.
The solution is to have MORE people on FR and less people on CNN MSNBC and even FNC.
Tell your friends about FreeRepublic.com we we can have more people.
If Duncan Hunter had been a previous governor, he would have had my vote in a heartbeat. If George Allen had not had a very small slip of the tongue, he was my first choice.
I’m sitting out the primary. I just can’t get excited about anyone. There are two or three that I will hold my nose and vote for in the general.
Glad to see that Hunter is holdingt steady at 1%. He should stay in until the convention. It could be brokered and he could be our next president.
What's not to love?
SNORT.
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Amen.
I’d love a Fred/Santorum ticket. But what we’ll end up getting is McCain/liberman ticket.
They forgot: IN HIS OWN MIND in the headline.
There was a report that the DailyKos is urging Michigan Democrats to vote for Romney--for the specific purpose of keeping Romney in the race in the hopes that a more lengthy primary fight will weaken the eventual Republican nominee. Since Hillary's only opponents in Michigan are the fringe candidates Kucinich and Gravel, that could be attractive to a lot of 'Rats...although we'll probably see a lot of them voting for McCain too (those who didn't read the DailyKos memo).
You are more right than wrong. It will be McCain, no doubt about it. I don’t have a clue as to he will choose for his VP. Maybe Teddy!
Juan McCain - President of New Hampshire.
Yes and Obama trounced Hillary in New Hampshire.
Bloomberg?
People don’t know McCain was a champion of that amnesty bill. He is denying it. Huckabee is denying his record. The others likewise. (Except Thompson and Hunter.)
Since nearly all of them are guilty of something in this regard, they’d all just prefer not to talk about it.
It’s up to Fred, really. If he can’t bring himself to expose his “good friend” McCain’s shortcomings, we’re sunk.
I’m not making any predictions. This thing is way to fluid for me to stick my neck out.
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