Facts?
Yes facts. You consider poll results to be opinions?
I told you where to find the polls. Realclearpolitics.com. Here is the link. Go there and look up all the demographics you want. Of course, these are national polls. More compelling are state data. McCain is currently ahead or competitive even in some of the blue states. Pay attention: Norman Bates posts state head to head results regularly.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_clinton-224.html#polls
Second, look at the posts on this board and describe for me the Republican base support for McCain.
LOL. This board is not representative of the GOP base.
You people seem incapable of realizing that you need these peoples votes for to win. They have no need to vote for your political god. Frankly John McCain has show he has utterly nothing to offer Conservatives. His political record shows it.
You think running a worn out, broke tired old barely coherent DC Machine politician with a war record against the Clintonites with their $50 million war chest has a hope in hell of winning? Ever heard of Bob Dole?
10 months ago the only guy who could beat Hillary in all the polls was Rudy G. Where is he now? Are you people honestly dumb enough to think polls 10 months before a General Election can tell you who will win? Before any General campaign is even started?
Now let us look at that historic record.
Really tough for the party in the WH to win 3 elections running. Who has a better chance beating a Democrat Senator? Another Senator or someone NOT tied to the DC political machine?
Let us look at the historic record of the last 30 years.
1976 Carter ran as the populist outsider against DC. Carter Won.
1980. Reagan ran as an outsider going to DC to clean up the mess. Reagan won
1984. Old Machine politician and former Senator Mondale ran by the Democrats against Reagan. Reagan won.
1988. VP running on the Reagan legacy against a DC outsider barely won.
1992 DC outsider ran against sitting President. Outsider Clinton won.
1996 Old career Senator named Dole with a stellar war record ran against Sitting President. President Clinton won.
2000 DC outsider ran against sitting President's VP, outsider Bush won by a few hundred votes.
2004 Old career Senator named Kerry with a supposed stellar war record ran against sitting President. President won.
2008. The GOP Establishment plans to run an old tired worn out career Senator with a war record against the former 1st Lady or a 1 term Senator.
Based on that historic record just why would anyone be so hopelessly naive to think McCain has any chance at all against Clinton Inc? Ah yes, the magical "polling data" the same magic data 10 months ago who told you your only choice was Rudy G.
I cannot decide which is more amusing. The McCainaics almost total political ignorance, or their wholly unwarranted arrogance.