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Much of the criticism aimed toward presidential candidate Donald Trump by other Republicans has been predicated on the assumption that he will lose in the general election. Trump's many provocative statements, which would be considered gaffes if uttered by any other candidate but have somehow worked for him, are generally assumed to preclude him from securing the broad support necessary to claim victory in November.However, one method of analysis known as the Primary Model predicts that Trump would not only win in the general if nominated by Republicans, but completely dominate. From the Huffington Post: Trump will defeat Hillary Clinton...

By saying that Republican John McCain would have been a worse president than Barack Obama............ (I have no use for the rest of this website's drivel. I just want the substance of what Beck said)

Gore beats Bush in Florida (2000). I have noticed a horrible start to the day with all the 'Breaking News' polls. I urge the administrators to take them down and stop giving refuge to eeyores.

My FReeper friends, I'm here on the other side of the earth praying and hoping the American people will grab hold of common sense and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin tomorrow. There's little else I can do. I can't vote. If you can, PLEASE do so. PLEASE get out and vote. I'm terrified of what will follow if you don't...

Republican John McCain poked fun at his presidential campaign's financial shortcomings in an appearance on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." The presidential hopeful made a cameo appearance on the show with Tina Fey reprising her memorable impersonation of McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

BARACK Obama geared up today to deliver a 30-minute primetime campaign pitch on national television networks, as polls suggested his duel for the White House with John McCain may be tightening. Upping the pace to an intense new level six days before next Wednesday's election, Democratic candidate Senator Obama was to hold his first joint rally with former president Bill Clinton at a midnight event in Orlando, Florida. Senator Obama's bulging campaign coffers and grass-roots organisation is allowing the 47-year-old Illinois senator to push deep into Republican territory, forcing Senator McCain to pour resources into what in the past were...

The elections in America are winding down (thank God) and it seems as if Obama is in the lead by 3-6% points (if you believe the polls). In any event, by McCain's own admission he is playing catch up at this point. This seems simple, make the election from this point forward a referendum on socialism. It's clear that Obama has socialist leanings (proved by Obama's own rhetoric and his affiliations with the New Party). McCain needs to hit hard for a day or two on Redistribution of wealth being one of the tenets of socialism and tying Obama to...

The very latest poll numbers from John Zogby put John McCain squarely ahead of Barack Obama at 46 percent to 44 percent, respectively. McCain moved from three percentage points behind Obama to two points ahead of the democratic candidate in less than a week. One possible reason for the boost -- McCain's decision to forego politics as usual to focus on the current financial meltdown. The polling was conducted after Mccain's announcement that he would suspend his campaign. Independent voters played a key role in the latest figures: McCain now leads with independents by nine points, 43 percent to 34...

US vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin's fashion sense is winning applause in an unexpected quarter - in Japan, where the maker of her rimless glasses is enjoying a sudden boost in business. The Alaska Governor's designer specs have become a hot topic on the US campaign trail, with some speculating that the 44-year-old former beauty queen is trying to show her seriousness. But whatever her reason, Masunaga Optical Manufacturing is pleased with the media interest. The company makes Ms Palin's MP-704 glasses, designed out of titanium by Kazuo Kawasaki. "Few politicians, especially women, go out with glasses. We're happy to...

DEMOCRAT Barack Obama has berated his White House rival John McCain as an out-of-touch economic illiterate who would make the rich richer at a time of financial pain for most US voters. At a rally in a sweltering high school gymnasium in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Senator Obama mocked Senator McCain for remarking at a weekend forum with religious leader Rick Warren that only those earning more than $US5 million ($5.7 million) a year were really rich. "This explains why his tax plan gives hundreds of thousands in tax breaks for people earning 2.5 million, because they're only middle class," the...

YOUNG Indian-American governor of Lousiana, Bobby Jindal, a rising Republican star, has ruled himself out of the race to be the party's vice-presidential pick. Asked if he would like to be John McCain's running mate, Jindal, 37, told NBC's Meet the Press "No. I've got the job I want." "I'm voting for Senator McCain. I'll do what I can to help him. I'll do it as good governor. We cut taxes, we're growing jobs, lowest unemployment in 30 years, but we have more work," he said. Mr Jindal's name has been floated as a possible vice presidential pick as the...

Barack Obama’s lead over John McCain has diminished considerably in three battleground states, according to a poll published Thursday. The Quinnipiac University polls, conducted from July 23-29, found that Obama’s lead has weakened in Pennsylvania and Ohio, two key swing states in November’s presidential election. The poll also found the two candidates in a virtual tie in Florida. According to the poll, Obama is ahead of McCain by 7 percentage points, 49 to 42 percent, in Pennsylvania — a drop from that same poll last month, which showed Obama leading McCain by 12 percentage points at 52 to 40 percent....

AMERICANS are sharply divided by race ahead of the first presidential election in which a black candidate will represent a major party, a New York Times/CBS News poll showed today, The poll found that blacks and whites hold vastly different views of Sen. Barack Obama, an Illinois Democrat who would be the first black president, and are also divided on the state of race relations in the US, the newspaper reported. In the survey, 83 per cent of blacks had a favorable opinion of Mr Obama, compared with 31 per cent of white voters. Mr Obama will face John McCain,...

DID someone say road trip? Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting John McCain has offered to take his likely Democractic counterpart Barack Obama to Iraq to "educate him" on the real situation there. Senator McCain has said Senator Obama has not been to Iraq in more than two years, since before the so-called troops surge announced by President George W. Bush at the start of 2007. He has said the country has been transformed since then and Senator Obama cannot have a credible policy on Iraq unless he returns there to see the improvements in security. "Look at what happened in the last...

John McCain rarely speaks about his experiences as a POW in Vietnam, but one of his cell mates at the Hanoi Hilton on Thursday described some of the conditions and character traits that earned McCain the commendations he received for his war service. Col. George “Bud” Day, 83, is the most decorated service man since Gen. Douglas MacArthur, with more than 70 medals. A living legend, Day was blown out of the sky two months to the day before the North Vietnamese shot down a propaganda prize, whose father and grandfather were renowned American admirals. “They told me we were...

CHULA VISTA, California — Fresh off his eighth Iraq visit, Sen. John McCain declared that “we are succeeding” and said he would not change course. To underscore his view of the stakes in Iraq, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee twice referenced a recent audio tape from Usama bin Laden in which the Al Qaeda leader urged followers to join the Al Qaeda fight in Iraq and called the country “the greatest opportunity and the biggest task.” “For the first time, I have seen Usama bin Laden and General (David) Petraeus in agreement, and, that is, a central battleground in the...

John McCain Wins GOP Nomination

"Are folks aware of just how meticulously (Sen. John) McCain and his team are going about building their '08 campaign? There's probably not a GOP activist in South Carolina who hasn't been contacted at least once by someone supportive of McCain's candidacy. ... As long as he continues to poll well against Hillary, and as long as the Republicans look as if they could lose power at a moment's notice, McCain should be able to create the air of inevitability that Bush created in 2000." - Hotline editor Chuck Todd in National Journal. Officially, he is not yet running and...

by Mark Finkelstein February 7, 2006 - 19:39 There's been speculation today that Democrats and their MSM allies would turn on erstwhile hero John McCain in the wake of his breathtakingly critical letter to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama - whom we are legally required to refer to as a "rising star of the Democratic party." But at least one MSMer with impeccable Dem credentials - Chris Matthews - was reveling in the cat fight this evening. Obama and McCain apparently had a gentlemen's agreement that they would cooperate in a bi-partisan way on a lobbying reform bill. But it seems...

White House race: GoP banks on McCain to beat Hillary Sarah Baxter [Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:57:52 pm THE SUNDAY TIMES] WASHINGTON: Republicans are warming up to John McCain as the politician most likely to beat Hillary Clinton to the White House in 2008 and to clear the party of the taint of sleaze. A poll last week showed McCain could trounce Clinton, the Democrat favourite, by 52 to 36. The 16-point lead reveals that he has a decisive advantage among independents and swing voters. "The more scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain. He is...