G.O.P. Voters, in Big Shift, Favor McCain Over His Rivals »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 7 months, 4 weeks agoRepublican voters have sharply altered their views of the party's presidential candidates following the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, with Senator John McCain, once widely written off, now viewed more favorably than any of his major competitors, according to the latest nationwide New York Times/CBS News Poll.
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aniokly7 months, 4 weeks ago
McCain won one primary. So did Huckabee, and soon Romney will win Michigan. It means nothing. The Primary election season will not be over for months. It is way too early to call a winner in either party.
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DropkickaLib7 months, 3 weeks ago
Actually, some of the early states let you vote in any primary you want, regardless of your party affiliation. So in some states, the Democrats get to choose their candidate and the Republican candidate.
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vor7 months, 3 weeks ago
The neocon bootlicker that is...all this country needs is another 4 years of those goons controlling our foreign policy. The only issue that he parts ways with them is on torture. So he is a humane warmonger!
Same goes for Guiliani and even Huckabee who has been consulting the likes of John Bolton on foreign policy.
If we are ever going to have serious allies again, neo-conservative idealogy must leave the White House.
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joeblowe7 months, 3 weeks ago
Yet another damned journalist writing paragraph after paragraph about what might happen when people find out how OTHER people voted. Jesus Henrietta Christ - why can't the media made a presumption in favor of people making up their OWN minds and present FACTS about the various candidates instead of making up endless "what-ifs" about future voting results. It continues to make me sick.
I think the only way to really solve this is to have ALL the primaries on the same day. Sort of like the actual elections. Then people will HAVE to make up their own minds, and MAYBE the IDIOT media will be forced to give us something halfway useful so they can fill up the dead air that would be left due to not being able to endlessly speculate about previous and/or future results.
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THOMNH627 months, 3 weeks ago
and people who will do and say anything to get a vote are any better, ie Hillary
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Centinel7 months, 3 weeks ago
The only candidate that has all the interests of the nation on their platform and has actually provided solutions that would work is Ron Paul. The funny thing is that most of the solutions are economically founded. I think he realizes that if you follow the money, you will find the cause of most of our problems.
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DropkickaLib7 months, 3 weeks ago
The return to the Gold Standard is sheer madness. Ron Paul reminds me of William Jennings Bryan and his "Free Silver" campaign.
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onlyonesecret7 months, 3 weeks ago
DropkickaLib... Federal Reserve Notes are Fiat money. Fiat money is money that has no backing in gold, it is simply an IOU nothing. Since the Federal Reserve is independent, it is not accountable to anyone. The Federal Reserve neither requires nor seeks the approval of any branch of Government for its policies.
Is that what you want?
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Centinel7 months, 3 weeks ago
Gold and silver have been the only stable forms of monetary exchange for what, 2000 years. An ounce of gold will buy essentially the same thing it could buy 2000 years ago. A nice set of clothing, a good pair of shoes and have enough left over to buy a good meal. The dollar cannot even buy a $.05 candy bar anymore.
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wtagg7 months, 3 weeks ago
I find it ironic that the alleged conservatives are against the most conservative candidate.
Paul is certainly not a perfect candidate, but he does seem to grasp that the country cannot burn through $10,000,000,000 to $15,000,000,000 a month and not see any equity from the expenditure. He also seems to understand that the sacrifice of our troops is not creating security or anything else for this country.
The fastest way to security is to stop paying for a commodity to those that we are in conflict with. We are financing the war on both sides. That is madness.
$10,000,000,000 to $15,000,000,000 a month would go a long way to developing other technologies. It would also help to put our country in a leadership role in the arena and provide us a commodity for us to export.
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DropkickaLib7 months, 3 weeks ago
That Isolationist message doesn't get the press it used to in the 1930s!
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onlyonesecret7 months, 3 weeks ago
The next big event should be for all to cancel their cable/satelite on the same day. Save the money and give it to the Revolution, because for one, if Ron Paul is not elected, and we continue to be led down the same path, The American people won't be able to afford cable or satelite.
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NelsonR7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Republicans deserve to lose with a party taken over by the Evangelical crowd of religious war mongers. How can you separate Bin Ladens crowd and the Evangelical Republican crowd, you can't. Both believe force by arms with a God on their side is righteous. McCain is an avowed nationalist war hawk but he isn't religious but when you also factor in his wish for amnesty for illegals he has two huge strikes against him, hopefully he will not be elected as all misery and war loving Republicans.
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gamahuche7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Cons remind me of impatient fishermen, casting desperately, getting little bites, nothing to hook onto at all, cast again..
Isn't the simple truth that NONE of them are up to snuff and they know the populace couldn't care less whether they elect little Red Riding Hood or the Big Big Bad Wolf so long as s/he is NOT a Republican.
[except for Alpha who is still desperately casting around for ANYBODY on the Con flank who could maybe, maybe say SOMETHING that would stop people yawning.]
Too much to hope that they might actually couch their campaign in positives!
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pongping7 months, 3 weeks ago
I can't really disagree with you about the Cons. However, I would like to ask who on the other side is up to snuff? Hillary supports Iraq, or does she sometimes not support it? She's an Lieberman-AIPAC puppet on Iran. What's she going to do about the massive debt we have, the strapping payments on interest alone, and the overspending that is the cause? How is she going to bring home the bacon that has gone overseas? She keeps talking about all this great experience, but what executive experience does she have, other than living with Bill in the White House? Tell me how she is going to unite the country. I can't see it. She is divisive because she gives off the persona that she is always right, and only she is right. She worries me because I see nothing other than talk which ostensibly she is good at.
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NelsonR7 months, 3 weeks ago
ponaping - Well you are right about Hillary. That is why Obama is the choice for HOPE. If his rhetoric is typical political B.S. we would rid ourselves of him four years later. But wait, Americans dislikes Bush and he's still with us so I have to rethink all.
I'm still gloating over the fact that the Evangelical righteous, war loving hawk Republicans are in a supreme quandary about not having a true Religious Republican candidate.
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vor7 months, 3 weeks ago
Excellent points. I have been telling my fellow Dems this all along. We have to have REAL CHANGE and that isn't a return to the Clinton years. She has worked well in the Senate with those who have in the end continued to create the problems (earmarks, bloated military and entitlement budgets). It is going to be tough going for anyone trying to enact change but it has to be someone with fresh ideas. I don't get that vibe from Hillary at all. And if she is the nominee we are in for the nastiest campaign of modern times.
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vor7 months, 3 weeks ago
How can one not look a bit crooked at a man who honorably served his country, suffered through horrible conditions as a POW but then allows himself to be mauled by his own party. You have to respect his service but you don't have to respect the decisions he has made since.
I can see the slogan now:
Elect McCain in '08, he's the new Bob Dole!
"We couldn't find a real candidate so we settled for the oldest guy."
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pongping7 months, 3 weeks ago
Hey, I like that better, "ponAping". I could ask the same question about Obama and whether or not he possesses real, brass-tacks leadership experience, and the ability to tell the lobbyists to go to Hades because the people's interest are at stake. He, however, does offer something that Hillary does not seem to possess, his own thoughts which are not stuck in some Twilight Zone from 35 years ago. I presume that is the true hope he is talking about.
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joey-evans7 months, 3 weeks ago
"No experience is good experience in some ways. No one can critize you for decisions you've never had to make before."
What?
Yeah, you are PERFECT for the REPUBES!
I guess that is one way you can pick the President of the United States...L.O.L. What's that you say? You have NO experience...GREAT...ever thought about being the president of a country before? You are PERFECTLY qualified!!
Bwahahhahahahahaha....TOO STUPID FOR WORDS!
JOEY EVANS
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Mintyfunk7 months, 3 weeks ago
I wonder if these are the same pollster who predicted double digit victory in New Hampshire for Obama. McCain has done well because of open primaries and Independent voters. Voters who made vote Dem come election time.
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motivator9117 months, 3 weeks ago
as a Independent and as a Marine Corps veteran who has religiously followed not only United states politics but world events. McCain is the only candidate with not only the exsperience but the integrity to become the next president, as is apparent by his 20 plus years between the house and senate as well as the various commitees he has served on the most important being on the foriegn relations commitee and as sad as it is to say, apparently the only mature candidate as is obvious by the actions of the rest, in thier adds and debates by the way they childishly complain about the others record instead of presenting thier own or should I say lack of thier own
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rayganye7 months, 3 weeks ago
If McCain is elected president he will surprise everyone. If you think that Clinton gave you something to remember and Bush gave you something to remember, well McCain will give the world something to remember for a 1000 years. I can't tell you what his big surprise will be because you won't vote for him and we don't want a cry baby in the white house. . . . The "big bang" theory, McCain president and Rudy Vice-president - let us show the world how tough we really can be. I Think that Al Gore should be our next president - Rayganye.
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saintetienne7 months, 3 weeks ago
"I could only support McCain if he were running against Hillary."
Well, THAT'S easy. I could support ANYONE running against Hillary. A paper boy....An oil sludge collector.....A street mime.....A fry cook.....A Los Angeles Unified School teacher....
Yes, recent polls indicate that when it comes to Shrillary, nearly 88% of the population is more qualified to lead our nation than the aging, scandal-ridden, cackling crone that is Hillary Clinton - - ex-first lady and tossed-aside wife extraordinaire!
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aniokly7 months, 3 weeks ago
In the states where Democrats can vote Republican, Republicans can vote Democrat. There are 11 crossover states. It works both ways. Republicans can help Democrats get the candidate they want to run against.
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pongping7 months, 3 weeks ago
So that means you didn't read his post before responding and putting words in his mouth that he didn't say to the effect that he was in favor of a violent revolution. Did you even read mine? Oh, don't bother answering.
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kedirian7 months, 2 weeks ago
A President McCain may not even make it past his inaugural parade - so, America, THINK who his running-mate is/will be!
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