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AP-Yahoo poll shows McCain winning back unhappy Republicans
AP ^ | Apr 17, 2008 | ALAN FRAM and TREVOR TOMPSON

Posted on 04/17/2008 6:10:40 AM PDT by tlb

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans are no longer underdogs in the race for the White House. To pull that off, John McCain has attracted disgruntled GOP voters, independents and even some moderate Democrats who shunned his party last fall.

Partly thanks to an increasingly likable image, the Republican presidential candidate has pulled even with the two Democrats still brawling for their party's nomination, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo news poll released Thursday. Just five months ago - before either party had winnowed its field - the survey showed people preferred sending an unnamed Democrat over a Republican to the White House by 13 percentage points.

Also helping the Arizona senator close the gap: Peoples' opinions of Hillary Rodham Clinton have soured slightly, while their views of Barack Obama have improved though less impressively than McCain's.

The survey suggests that those switching to McCain are largely attuned to his personal qualities and McCain may be benefiting as the two Democrats snipe at each other during their prolonged nomination fight.

By tracking the same group of roughly 2,000 people throughout the campaign, the AP-Yahoo poll can gauge how individual views are evolving. What's clear is that some Republican-leaning voters who backed Bush in 2004 but lost enthusiasm for him are returning to the GOP fold - along with a smaller but significant number of Democrats who have come to dislike their party's two contenders.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; gop; maverick; mccain; nevermccain; puke; rino
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To: Obadiah

Well said.


61 posted on 04/17/2008 7:32:45 AM PDT by marinamuffy (I really dislike McCain but I'll crawl over broken glass to vote against Hillary or the Obamanation.)
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To: elfman2

The shortest path to a destination is not always a straight line.
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Use that line on the Jews in the Nazi concentration camps.

We don’t need a Maxist “character builder” in the White House for four years.


62 posted on 04/17/2008 7:33:25 AM PDT by not2worry ( What goes around comes around!)
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To: tlb
McPain wins nothing back
It's only because we love our country more than we hate him
63 posted on 04/17/2008 7:34:02 AM PDT by 1903A3
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To: rhombus
This is a vast difference between having some flaws and being “evil.” Reagan's budget spending was mostly due to a necessary defense build up. He appointed O'Connor, but initially she was a moderate/conservative. Kennedy was his third choice and came after the Bork fiasco with a democrat majority in the senate. Reagan cut taxes far more than he increased them.

True, Reagan made major mistakes in Iran and with amnesty. But, overall Reagan was very conservative and not a evil. McCain is a Soros’ sponsored leftist and clearly a evil.

64 posted on 04/17/2008 7:36:07 AM PDT by MBB1984
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To: 1903A3

In the end, you’re right. It’s the love of our country that allows us to support McCain; he needs to be worthy of that support. But in democracy, we go to the polls with the candidate we have and not the ones we wish we had.


65 posted on 04/17/2008 7:39:07 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (If you share Wright's pews, you share his views.)
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To: MBB1984

Please, you don’t have to re-live history or rationalize what Reagan did. I lived through those years too. the word evil was jsut part of the old cliche. I actually think very few people are evil... including the current candidates. Misguided as hell, maybe not the sharpest tool in the box (uh oh, another cliche)... but not evil. Sorry for the cliche.


66 posted on 04/17/2008 7:39:41 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: misterrob

Step 1: Go to polls.

Step 2: Take a deep breath and hold it.

Step 3. Grasp nose tightly between thumb & forefinger.

Step 4. Use other hand to swing on the elephant’s tail.

Step 5. Pray to God to forgive you.

RESULT: A somewhat less bad result than what might have been. I hope.


67 posted on 04/17/2008 7:41:38 AM PDT by chesley (Where's the omelet? -- Orwell)
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To: faithinchaos

You have a faulty premise. If the bus is being driven over the cliff it matters not who is at the wheel, the results are the same. All three are heading us over the cliff. The crash damage will be the same - destroyed country. I will not vote for my executioner plain and simple. There is not a gnats a$$ of difference between where any of the three will leave the country in four years. Also McCain is capable of destroying the entire world in one of his irrational fits of rage.


68 posted on 04/17/2008 7:46:13 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
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To: tlb; All

McCain is not winning anything.

McCain is essentially irrelevant.

Obama and Hillary are driving voters away from the democrats.

The importance of McCain in this election is in his own mind.

At this point, McCain could vacation till the first wednesday in november.


69 posted on 04/17/2008 7:48:08 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: rhombus
Those who sit around waiting for the Great Pumpkin Messiah candidate are nearly always disappointed... or delusional

I'm starting to think delusional, especially when they think it's Mitt Romney or that real tired actor guy.

70 posted on 04/17/2008 7:48:43 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Dixie Yooper

Everybody has their heroes and villains.


71 posted on 04/17/2008 7:54:42 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: BfloGuy

I served 21 years active duty(just retired) and am in Afghanistan now but I still will not vote for McCain. At some point you just have to say no more. I will not promote, donate or vote for someone that is for illegal immigration, global warming, NAFTA, gross misspending and has shown utter disdain for Conservatives values.


72 posted on 04/17/2008 8:15:18 AM PDT by Rodd16
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To: Southack

...but he won’t sell out our country. He is a patriot.”

McCain-Kennedy


73 posted on 04/17/2008 8:15:33 AM PDT by LadyNavyVet
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To: longtermmemmory

Do not underestimate McCains appeal as his personal life story becomes more known.


74 posted on 04/17/2008 8:19:24 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: not2worry
McCain would just about be as devastating and may be worse, since he would have virtually no opposition to liberal legislation. The GOP would have a hard time fighting against the head of their party in opposing his leftist polices.

Given an Obama or Clinton fiasco, we are back in Congress in 2010. Given a McCain fiasco, the GOP and USA may never recover.

75 posted on 04/17/2008 8:20:10 AM PDT by MBB1984
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To: MBB1984
"McCain would just about be as devastating and may be worse, since he would have virtually no opposition to liberal legislation."

My, how quickly you kids forget my Senator Sessions beating the Amnesty bill with an ugly stick.

Do you even know that we won that fight?!

Or do you just remember the things that make your grouse-about-it list?

76 posted on 04/17/2008 8:33:10 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: MBB1984
I tend to agree.

McCain is a Democrat and some have predicted he will switch parties in the unlikely event he gets into the White House. He almost did it and was considered running for VP with Kerry. Lieberman whispers answers to him. He was only one of ten Republicans to vote against the Cornyn amendment - shows that WOT is not on top of his list.

77 posted on 04/17/2008 8:40:21 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: Dante3
"...some have predicted he will switch parties in the unlikely event he gets into the White House."

It's bad form to just make things up.

78 posted on 04/17/2008 8:43:38 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: MBB1984
Two things to consider, even if at the end of 4-8 years of Clinton or Obama we MAY get another Reagan (it took a Carter to elect a Reagan), we will have to contend with a lifetime of nationalized health care, and a generation of at least two more Ginsbergs on SCOTUS!

If anyone believes that once nationalized healthcare becomes a reality it will EVER go away they are delusional.

And although some may worry that McCain will nominate a moderate to SCOTUS, we can 100% guarantee that Obama or Clinton will nominate a Ginsberg.

We are still paying for four years of Carter via the Middle East policies he screwed up back then. I lay the Islamofascit Terrorists at his feet, and thanks to him we are still at war with them. If he wouldn't have tried to appease them then, they maybe wouldn't be such a problem now! I fear when it comes to appeasing the terrorists Obama will be as bad if not worse than Carter was, and there is no way in Hell I am willing to do anything that puts him that close to power! Clinton too.

79 posted on 04/17/2008 8:44:55 AM PDT by codercpc
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To: popdonnelly

bump


80 posted on 04/17/2008 8:45:43 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW , Vote Hunter in the Primary)
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