And yet the idiots in Arizona keep electing him. He is apparently representing the the way they want to be represented.
Golden op was wasted when Hayworth was put up against McCain.
Im of the opinion that a no name Tea Partyer would have done better and probably would have won.
Same could have been said of a lot of races.
Do you think voters put that much thought into it? Then you have more faith in democracy than me. I imagine it’s more like that’s the name they’ve heard before. Probably the state is reliably Pub, too. Sometimes name recognition works in reverse, and people vote against the one they heard more about. But McCain, being a lib and virtual Dem, doesn’t get much bad press.
For a while when he ran against Obama, surely. But not so much as Bush the Younger, for instance, because McCain didn’t try very hard. Remember when he called truce to vote for the bailout, or how they nearly posses themselves in fear when the spector of another Katrina loomed over the convention, or when they refused to expose Obama’s radical roots? Plus, they had Palin to kick around.
So what I’m saying is McCain’s got the “R,” he’s got the name recognition, he’s got the absence of bad press, and he’s got the extra incumbency protection he helped reinforce with campaign finance reform. How he represents the electorate in the Senate barely enters into consideration.