Posted on 04/17/2008 6:10:40 AM PDT by tlb
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans are no longer underdogs in the race for the White House. To pull that off, John McCain has attracted disgruntled GOP voters, independents and even some moderate Democrats who shunned his party last fall.
Partly thanks to an increasingly likable image, the Republican presidential candidate has pulled even with the two Democrats still brawling for their party's nomination, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo news poll released Thursday. Just five months ago - before either party had winnowed its field - the survey showed people preferred sending an unnamed Democrat over a Republican to the White House by 13 percentage points.
Also helping the Arizona senator close the gap: Peoples' opinions of Hillary Rodham Clinton have soured slightly, while their views of Barack Obama have improved though less impressively than McCain's.
The survey suggests that those switching to McCain are largely attuned to his personal qualities and McCain may be benefiting as the two Democrats snipe at each other during their prolonged nomination fight.
By tracking the same group of roughly 2,000 people throughout the campaign, the AP-Yahoo poll can gauge how individual views are evolving. What's clear is that some Republican-leaning voters who backed Bush in 2004 but lost enthusiasm for him are returning to the GOP fold - along with a smaller but significant number of Democrats who have come to dislike their party's two contenders.
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Sadly, you are correct.
There are two main reasons I am voting for McCain - Clinton & Obama.
The Constitutional Party and Libertarian Parties seem to spend all their time trying to decide who's "holier than thou".
Thanks for posting elfman2. I just scanned it, but will go back for a more detailed reading.
I agree that McCain is the least undesirable of the 3 remaining candidates. However, he's drunk the kool-aid on global warming, his economic policies remain less than coherant, and he's proven himself far too willing to jump across the aisle to the detriment of this nation.
To exhort me to vote for McCain simply because he's not as bad as Obama or Hillary, while calling me a traitor for not voting for McCain, simply isn't going to get my vote.
Yup. McCain will throw conservatives under the bus whenever he wants to appear "bi-partisan" to his news media and Beltway friends. That's a given.
So we conservatives know that we're leaping onto the McCain hand grenade in order to save the rest of our country...because Hillary and Obama and Gore and Kerry are foreign agents, gooks, inside the wire.
We can't allow the NVA to run the U.S.
So we vote McCain to save the country, even though McCain won't advance conservativism.
...but he won't sell out our country. He is a patriot. And he won't set conservatism back as much as having ChiComs, Hugo Chavez, Castro, Putin, or Kim Jong Il in the White House (and that's Hillary, Obama, Gore, and Kerry).
On the plus side, at least McCain will roll back the federal tax on our gasoline.
Yes, there are some that act like a battered and abused spouse that continues to hang on to a failed and repulsive marriage.
I will not support the insidious traitor under any circumstances.
You got that right. They're cowards. Actually, it's worse than that. They're liars. They could actually affect change for the positive if they would all realize that the only viable vehicle for them to accomplish what they claim they want to accomplish is the Republican party. The RP would be stronger if all would fight together.
Obviously, they're closet leftists.
Nicely put!!
Disagree. Was it a choice between the lesser of two evils between Reagan and Carter?
I really can’t think of an evil GOP nominee since 1980, except of course, McCain. They all had flaws, but all were at least moderate Republicans. This election it really is a choice between two leftists.
No, we all know the shortest route passes through the Valley of the Goobers. It's a valley full of dark shadows and dense forests. In there live the tales of queers and black bastards and rape and dishonesty and dishonor. The trick is to get through the valley without being caught up in the games. If you don't play, you can't win. If you do play, you can't win.
The other option, longer and harder, is to go around the this valley. The ghouls will shriek and scream and fling feces but they are stuck there and cannot leave. They cannot stand the sunlight.
If McCain wins the Presidency, conservatives will be put out to pasture in the GOP. He will run the party and will instill leftists like himself in positions of party leadership. This will ensure we have leftist GOP candidates throughout federal, state and local levels. McCain will ensure that your work is futile within the GOP.
I feel the same.
I cannot imagine putting Obama in the WH. My hope is that McCain would appoint good people to key positions.
As bad as Hillbama may be, if the election were held today, I still wouldn’t vote for McCain.
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Would you vote for Obama or Hillary?
When inflation is considered, Reagan's budgets spent more %-wise on spending than Bush's. Reagan signed into law 2 tax increases, amnesty for illegals, and supported the Brady bill. He also signed the treaty that banned Freon and cut and ran in Lebanon. In the area of preventing abortions, he appointed O'Connor and Kennedy to the Supreme Court. Reagan also had a major lapse of judgment with trading arms for hostages in Iran/Contra. This was a major scandal that consumed nearly all of Reagan's entire second term.
Still I'm very, very glad I voted for Reagan. He was the best choice there was.
Feelings are wonderful...but I voted out of ignorance. If I had really understood the consequences of voting for an outsider who had no chance of preventing eight years of Bubba and the millions of lies and the billions in failure that he brought, I would have voted for Bush Sr. in a heartbeat.
Here, here!
Bring on the NAU and NWO, bring it on!
As I see it, conservatives have long since been put out to pasture in the GOP. But I’m ok with that for the time being, because we won’t get anywhere until we rebuild the grass roots dimension. There was just a small taste of that when we took down the Harriet Myers nomination, and stopped the amnesty bill. What would it be like if all these people were organized and focused?
Allowing either Hillary or Obama to win this election would be devastating to the country.
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Mega Dittos!
Four years in the White House with either Hillary or Obama would damage our Country forever. I don’t subscribed to the theory of letting them serve for four years and then we will take over in 1012.
BTW, I will just use FReeper eyedigress’s saged advice:
“If you aren’t voting, who cares about your opinion”
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