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McCain Keeps Advantage Over Hillary for 2008
Angus Reid Global Scan/Zogby ^ | January 1, 2006

Posted on 01/01/2006 10:22:42 PM PST by presidio9

Arizona senator John McCain could win the 2008 presidential election in the United States, according to a poll by Zogby International. 52 per cent of respondents would vote for the Republican in a head-to-head contest against Democratic New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In 2000, McCain won seven GOP presidential primaries in the U.S., but retired from the race after eventual nominee George W. Bush became the frontrunner.

Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000, defeating Republican Rick Lazio by 12 per cent. She ruled out a presidential bid in 2004. 37 per cent of respondents would vote for the Democrat, while 11 per cent would back other candidates or remain undecided.

Bush is ineligible for a third term in office. The next presidential election is scheduled for November 2008.

Polling Data

Who would you vote for in a presidential election pitting Republican John McCain versus Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton?

John McCain (R) 52%

Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) 37%

Not sure / Other 11%


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; hillary2008; mccain; mccain2008; mcstain; zogby
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To: xrp
It isn't going to be McCain! He's too old.

I can think of about thirty good reasons not to vote for McCain. And "too old" isn't one of them...

61 posted on 01/01/2006 11:24:53 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: xrp

On the list of things that are horribly wrong with McCain, old is by far not the worst.

The man has consistantly done more harm than good. If we voted him in, there is absolutely no telling what he would do. On the major issues, he seems to side with the left more than the right. These are reasons to not vote for McCain.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Given the choice between McCain and Hillary, I'd pencil in Al Sharpton before I'd vote for either, and that's saying something. McCain is virtually worthless as a Republican.


62 posted on 01/01/2006 11:26:35 PM PST by ark_girl
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To: Pimpmygop

No, actually, he is in fact better by by a whole lot.

Conservative McCain hatred is largely irrational. He's got a well above average voting record, and is good on the most important issues.

He's not a Democrat. He just plays one on TV. When a line is actually drawn in the sand, he votes right almost every time.

I don't think McCain has the right temperment to be President, he's too egotistical. Hillary is even less tempermentally suited, and she's also wrong on all the issues.


63 posted on 01/01/2006 11:27:49 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: ark_girl

What you are saying is simply not true by any logical standards, assuming issues and voting matters.

McCain's voting record is largely very good, and more conservative then most GOPers.


64 posted on 01/01/2006 11:28:50 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: REDWOOD99
What are FRiends for?

FOREVER

65 posted on 01/01/2006 11:29:35 PM PST by concretebob (Which part of "National Security" does the press find confusing?)
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To: concretebob

A-A-A-men!


66 posted on 01/01/2006 11:30:38 PM PST by REDWOOD99
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To: T.L.Sink

I didn't doubt that they said it. I wondered why you thought I paid attention to what Newsmax had to say. That's like posting Slate on DU.


67 posted on 01/01/2006 11:30:42 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: Justanobody

Here's one:

http://www.tobp.com/other/beer_quotes.shtml

here's another:

http://www.allgreatquotes.com/funny_quotes37.shtml


68 posted on 01/01/2006 11:31:34 PM PST by Old Sarge (In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
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To: presidio9
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69 posted on 01/01/2006 11:32:49 PM PST by Old Seadog (Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
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To: presidio9
Arizona senator John McCain could win the 2008 presidential election in the United States

Not if I can help it!

70 posted on 01/01/2006 11:33:12 PM PST by kcvl
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To: zbigreddogz; All

Okay...I know what the Constitution says. My post was a joke to another FReeper to come over here. I was just trying to save some one from the whiskey and beer vats. LOL!


71 posted on 01/01/2006 11:33:28 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! WBB lives on. Beware the Enemedia.)
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To: Justanobody; zbigreddogz; Old Sarge

She's trying to protect me from myself, reddog..she's like that..ya oughta see her in action on the street.


72 posted on 01/01/2006 11:36:20 PM PST by concretebob (Which part of "National Security" does the press find confusing?)
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To: GraniteStateConservative

May 29, 2005

Old man McCain tries Bush’s crown for size
ANDREW SULLIVAN


snip

Journalists, whom he has cultivated for years, adore him — but largely because he’s a Republican who sometimes sticks it to Republicans.


snip


Why not McCain? The usual answer is: he’s too old and not in good enough health. He’ll be 72 in 2008 and had a recent, nasty bout of skin cancer. But his energy is still prodigious; he has that permanent, nerve-jangling haste that besets those who have been campaigning much of their lives. The media would do anything to help him and, last week, The New Yorker obliged with a fawning profile by Connie Bruck. Other journalists were having the vapours last week over his new clout.

Margaret Carlson of the Los Angeles Times gushed that McCain had “pulled the Senate back from Armageddon”. And Carlson is a liberal Democrat. You begin to see why a poll last year predicted that if McCain had been Kerry’s running mate, they would have beaten Bush by 14 points.


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the primary system in the Republican party is still strongly tilted toward fundamentalist Christians, and their leadership despises McCain.



http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1631925,00.html


73 posted on 01/01/2006 11:39:56 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Old Sarge
LOL - thanks Old Sarge! I was only kidding about the links, but I enjoyed them anyway. I like the Dave Berry quotes in particular.

Thank you for what you do...be safe.

74 posted on 01/01/2006 11:40:09 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! WBB lives on. Beware the Enemedia.)
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To: concretebob

Okay-that didn't sound too nice, MR. ;*)


75 posted on 01/01/2006 11:41:30 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! WBB lives on. Beware the Enemedia.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative

Nov 5, 2005
by Robert Novak



MONEY FOR MCCAIN

Sen. John McCain, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, has gotten a tepid response to a New York City fund-raiser Monday for his "Straight Talk America" political action committee.

McCain signed a Sept. 27 letter announcing his appearance at the St. Regis Hotel Nov. 7. The price was $1,000 per person for a 6 p.m. reception and $5,000 per person for a 7:30 p.m. dinner.

Many New York contributors to McCain's 2000 presidential campaign were reluctant to attend this year's event. The fact McCain will be 72 years old for the 2008 presidential campaign was cited to explain lack of enthusiasm, as was the senator's support for the Iraq war.


http://tinyurl.com/a2qtx


76 posted on 01/01/2006 11:41:57 PM PST by kcvl
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To: presidio9

NewsMax is a VERY conservative publication and website. You must be thinking of Newsweek, Newsday ??? or something altogether different.


77 posted on 01/01/2006 11:42:52 PM PST by T.L.Sink (stopew)
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To: GraniteStateConservative

Exclusive: Dick Morris Says Hillary Will Be America's Next President

Carl Limbacher, NewsMax.com
Wednesday, May 8, 2002

Not only will Sen. Hillary Clinton make a run for the White House before the decade is out, the former first lady has an excellent chance of winning a national election and becoming the next president of the United States.

That's the staggering prediction from former senior White House political adviser Dick Morris, who lamented to NewsMax.com Tuesday, "The order of succession to the presidency in this poor benighted country may well be Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton."



http://tinyurl.com/8fulp


78 posted on 01/01/2006 11:43:28 PM PST by kcvl
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To: T.L.Sink

He's not. He's just pissy that way.


79 posted on 01/01/2006 11:43:54 PM PST by REDWOOD99
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To: T.L.Sink

Trust me, I'm thinking of Newsmax. Newsmax is to Conservatism as Michael Moore is to liberalism. Do not quote from Newsmax in public and expect to be taken seriously.


80 posted on 01/01/2006 11:44:19 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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