I again respectfully disagree when you say that Keyes has never pulled more than 38%. In the 2000 campaign, he went down to the Alabama GOP delegates’ statewide meeting and spoke to them. He won an outright majority in their end-of-meeting preference vote.
As for whether he can win the nomination, well, it will sure take a lot of talking by folks who largely agree with him with folks who don’t know anything about him. If you think this election is important, then I urge you to talk about Dr. Keyes to folks you encounter throughout the day. Tell em about the videos on http://www.alankeyes.com — and urge them to tell others. I don’t expect any help from the liberal media, and its clear enough that even much of the conservative media has been reluctant to even mention his candidacy too.
I hope all the conservatives here who can’t find a candidate who represents their views will take a look at Alan Keyes. If you don’t support the only candidate still standing who actually represents your views, well, are you really so committed to standing up for your views? Lots of folks think McCain is just a happenstance away from a capsize moment like Dukakis had or Dean had. I don’t know how Keyes may win, but I do know that nobody in the race except Alan Keyes represents my views on the important issues that face us.
GOP meetings don’t count. If you want to win elections you need to win ELECTIONS, votes of the people, not some “end-of-meeting preference” real votes of normal non-connected people. The best he’s done in that was 38% and that was his first time out since then he’s been in the mid 20s on a good vote.
If he could win the nomination he’d actually have delegates by now. Super Tuesday has passed and he’s got nothing. It’ll take a lot more than just talking to turn Keyes into a real candidate with a real chance of winning the nomination, it would take a miracle that would include half a dozen key deaths. His campaign, again, like so many times before, is a complete non-starter. He can’t win, he can’t anything, he’s never even gotten remotely close, and he never will. Keyes supporters need to accept reality, he’s a smart guy who will never win election to any office ever under any circumstances. Maybe that’s a bad statement about America but that’s the reality we live in.