Once Dems do settle on a nominee, there would be natural bump in their favor as previously analyzed in other articles. McCain would have to overcome that. Sooner he gets going better his chances would be to erase that lead.
If after accusing each other of being Terrorist Sympathizers, Dems can still tie McCain in polls, then that to me is scary.
Yes. McCain is a big-time loser. That is scary, regardless of how the race comes out, whether he wins or loses.
The Republican Party leadership who set this up so one of their favored candidates, Giuliani or McCain, would win the nomination have a lot to answer for. In this critical race that may decide the future of our country, the last thing we need is a weak, liberal, corrupt, ill, base-kicking, unpopular candidate.
I think Mac should continue to sit this out for now. I really like the campaign strategy he’s laid out that relies on a “federalized” approach. He should also hold off on the big ads until the last moment, regardless of the nominee. The Dems come in with a 2-1 advantage in money this time. Let them spend it while Mac gets free coverage, youtube, blogs, etc...Main problem he has is Judas’ within the party who suffer from McCain Derangement Syndrome. They need to be silenced or Obamabots will take over.
One recurring feature of recent presidential campaigns has been the disgraceful effort of the Republican party to compensate for its unpopular positions on major issues, from health care to Iraq, by impugning the character of the Democratic presidential nominee. Liberals have made this complaint for some time, but I lent it new credence after listening to a senior figure in the Bush political machine. 'You guys never get it,' he said to a group of journalists who'd been debating the politics of some newsworthy issue. 'People don't vote on issues. They vote on character.'
Who said this?
Republicans weigh BOTH. BTW is the Dems who raised these questions about Obama. McCain has avoided going there.
Obama: Same Old Crap. Just Slightly Darker Brown.
“Republicans are laying the groundwork for the same cynical but deadly brand of politics that has kept them in the White House...”
LOL...if only this were so! It is McCain’s dumb luck that the Dems have to choose between two Marxists, with very shady connections in their past. Pointing this out to the electorate will be decried by their fellow Leftists in the msm, but that should not deter the GOP from exposing the truth. We’ll see if “Gentleman John” has the courage to do it.
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In every case, the GOP message to America was the same: the Democratic candidate is too fancy to understand your world. He looks down on you. He is a product of a coastal elite establishment that derides real Americans.
They really don't even realize they are doing it, do they?
There problem isn't that it's not true, it's that it keeps them from winning elections. The thing they don't seem to understand is that a person doesn't need a college to detect contempt coming from someone with one.
I don’t care if the President is a snob as long as he’s a conservative snob.
Until we take back our education system from the Democrats/socialists, we are doomed to be electing democrats and socialists.
Why do conservatives put their kids in public schools to be taught a socialist curriculum by socialists ?
This article says it all. It is the reason that Democrats seem to lose. But, not because of any dirth tricks by Republicans - and not because the electorate agrees with the Democratic issues either. It’s because the Democrats are so out of touch in their ivory towers, they do not understand average Americans and our value system.
The Dems lose because they mock our values, propose socialism in the name of being do-gooders, and nominate candidates who are so far left that they fall off the beach in California.
Karl Rove was just on saying that McCain is doing well—should be way behind at this point—and isn’t.
Why would you expect a lead? The story and focus right now is the Democratic primary.. as a citizen of PA, I can tell you that you wouldn’t know McCain exists if all you did was listen to the passing culture.
McCain is doing the right stuff, right now the bloodletting is in the dem primary so that’s the story folks are following... just like IRAQ is forgotten now that its obvious we are winning. Once this fracous is over and the general begins he’ll do fine.
Fauxbama has no chance in the general.. and if HillBilly gets the nomination after Fauxbama wins the popular in the primary, it will be chaos for the dems.. they have spent 8 years inciting to riot the masses over “selected not elected”... when they do it to their own, how do you think the liberal and dependency class blacks are going to react?
HillBilly will lose far too much support from a needed consitutuency to have any chance at winning.. black talk radio is already full of nothing but ignorant conspiracy... what do you think it would sound like after a convention where barack went in with the popular lead and walked out without the nomination?
McCain is the only one looking remotely like an adult in this mess to date.. you have to completely inexperienced folks trying to spin themselves as experienced.. one with what? 8 years in the senate, the other with 2... Vs a guy with 30 years in congress, and 20+ years in the military.. there other argument is that McCain would be Bush term 3, which is not going to fly either with the swing voters. They basically have nothing, and have no hopes of a fall win.
Wait till fall before you get worried about polls.. most of the 40% of swing voters are planning summer vacations, not worrying about an election 6+ months from now.