Obama carried his home state of Illinois with 65% of the vote. Clinton carried her adopted home state of New York with 57% of the vote. McCain won his home state too, but with only 47% of the vote, less than half of his constituents. The only states McCain broke above 50% in are liberal stronghold states, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York and in all three cases, both Clinton and Obama defeat him in these states by more than a 2 to 1 margin. . .
28 states have completed both RNC and DNC primaries thus far. By popular vote, Obama won 14, Clinton 10 and McCain only 4. McCain lost the RNC primary in 3 of those 4 states, averaging only 14% support from Republican primary voters in each. He is at best secure in only 2 of the 4 states, Alaska and Iowa. In the general election, he can indeed lose both Arizona and Nevada.
The stark truth. The only question is whether the history books will declare the RNC Strategery or Rudy Giuliani's non-traditional campaign the stupidest Republican moves of 2008.
Excellent, calcowgirl!
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The winner take all rules must be changed or we will wind up again with a candidate most of the Reps voted against. We also need to eliminate open primaries.
I'm still waiting for the Repub PTB to admit they knew Rooty was porking Jooty on the public dime, and they figured nobody would mind Rooty publicly humiliating his wife by dumping her at a press conference.
No problem, they might have said, "After all we've gotten beyond Andy and Opie."
lolol!