In hour after hour of frequently repetitive punditry, not a single one raised this question:
How can John McCain expect to win Pennsylvania in the fall when he was roundly rejected by a whopping 27 percent of his own Republicans in the state, including 11 percent who voted for a guy who dropped out weeks ago?
McCain: 575,543 72.7 percent
Paul: 125,705 15,9 percent
Huckabee 89,957 11.4 percent
It's not that silly. Ron Paul's voters are against the war and for the Constitution which could steer them to a fall Democrat, while Mike Huckabee's backers are evangelicals who tend to stay home when they don't like a candidate. You don't think 215,000 voters could decide Pennsylvania?
Posted by Will Bunch @ 10:15 AM
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Not so sure Paul's voters would steer toward a Democrat. They aren't real high on social programs.
Genius, anything would be better than hearing you cry day in day out. TYell us again what policies of McCain's you support?
Poor Will, he so depressed, looking for any ray of light for his messiah. The Paul people will stay with the whack job theme and vote for Nader. The bible thumpers will come around and vote for McCain because the thought of Obama makes them puke. Try to work thru your grief Bunch, take the rest of the day off.
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The real question for McCain is how offering the people four more years of policies which only the marginalized (28%) minority support is a winning strategy. Good luck with that. 28% - a record-setting marginalization!
Attytood DN stage production of Napolean Dynamite. Starring Barack Obama as LaFawnduh, and Will, as Kip Dynamite.
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"Good luck with Clinton or the Great Elitist- in the general. McCain will smoke either!!!!!
Posted by The Genius"..........................So, you think Ron Paul's people will flock to him? Or do you think at all?
Please, the republicans were too busy participating in Operation Chaos
b. at, if voters were lying to the exit pollsters then the networks wouldn't have been able to call it early. Try thinking it through once in a while.
Steve, actually Obama has denounced Carter's trip and his support of Hamas. Don't let the fact-challenged 28 percenters muddy the water with their crass partisan political insinuations and their "need" to hear specific words and phrases. "I have a fundamental difference with President Carter and disagree with his decision to meet with Hamas," Obama said. "We must not negotiate with a terrorist group intent on Israel's destruction. We should only sit down with Hamas if they renounce terrorism, recognize Israel's right to exist and abide by past agreements." - yeah, that's from noted anti-Israel paper, Haaretz. The shreiking harpies in April will be even more strident and shrill in October. And they'll still be lying up a storm because they know the truth isn't on their side. The American people aren't listening to their politics of the past, which makes them even more angry and desperate. It is to laugh.
"It is to laugh." Hey Pleb, it's the laughs that keep me coming back to this site. Sometimes, you get gems like TPS's Napolean Dynamite comment above - now that's funny! But most often it's the juveniles here who think that they just caught Will or some other commenter kissing in a tree behind the schoolyard, and can't wait to blabber on about it to the rest of the class. I'm bouyed by the fact that their immaturity naturally attracts them to right wing partisanship - it fits my world view you might say.
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