Posted on 02/28/2008 7:00:23 AM PST by xzins
Will the "Willie Effect" Impact the Election?
Some speculate the controversy could cost McCain the White House
By 700WLW News
Thursday, February 28, 2008
( Cincinnati ) -- Some reports claim the on-going controversy involving 700 WLW talk show host Bill Cunningham (Willie Cunningham) and presidential candidate John McCain has the potential to impact the results of the 2008 election.
Ohio is a key state in the presidential election. For Republicans it is essential that they win as much support as possible in southwest Ohio to counter the strong Democratic party support in the Cleveland area.
Political Science professor Jason Johnson from Hiram College spoke to the Cincinnati Enquirer and told them John McCain needs radio talk show listeners and Willie fans to go his way, "John McCain needs those people if he has any hope of winning in November."
With other national talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity rushing to Willie's defense, it widens the rift between the party's conservative base and John McCain even further, at a time when the Republican party has only recently started to solidify around the likely nominee.
But, But, But he used Baarack’s middle name Huesein which is something he should not have done. His Majesty’s middle name is not to be used.
Cunningham makes McCain appear reasonable....John’s camp used him to make a national statement. It worked.
Therefore, 51 thousand votes determines the election. Your 2% easily meets that threshold.
Uh the Bush/Kerry was a 3 million vote split, and anyway I don't think rationally thinking people will an arrogant, petulant, irrationally thinking Cunningham.
Afterall the voters oin the right are not "mind numbed robots" and can see a petulant temper tantrum by Cunninbham for what it is.
Cunninham's comments -- the ones that started this piddlefest -- were out of line. If he can't watch his mouth; and if he can't take his medicine like a man; then he should be thrown under the bus.
Bravo, xzins!
So to read posts slamming men who have worked hard all their lives for the Right, just to defend a man who has NEVER lifted a finger for the RIGHT, is sickening.
Vote for McCain if you will, none of my business, but do not slam talk radio on the whole, after all, they have been are ONLY warriors against the MSM, teaching and influencing, more than our reps in DC.
It’s a matter of fairness, Dane.
What was Cunningham’s crime that required the level of rebuke he got from McCain that will also get conservatives to agree that Cunningham did something unethical/illegal/obnoxious?
Can you spell it out for me?
I think that he knows that conservatives are in the end, rational people, and they will, however reluctantly, vote for someone who they are less thrilled with in order to stop a man who is has no experience and who is against everything they stand for. I also believe that McCain knows that Obama and the media who love to make this election a referendum on bigotry and he is trying to cut off that meme early to the extent possible.
Thanks to diluted conservative votes and Democrats voting in early GOP open primaries.
When you celebrate a GOP candidate Democrats helped nominate, it becomes clear where you stand.
Huh? The NEXT time? Oh, you mean 2012? It will be a new party. SO many conservatives have left the GOP, they don’t stand a prayer of getting them back. Romney can’t bring them back, maybe soome of them. It’s third party time, Tommy and not nec. The CP...
The local organizers should either not have had Cunningham as a warm-up act, or got him to agree to refrain from inflammatory language that would put McCain on the spot.
Cunningham and Limbaugh want the election to be all about them, even if it means electing Obama. With all of McCain's shortcomings, having Obama as President would be far worse for the country, both domestically and for foreign policy. How many days was Cunningham tortured by the North Vietnamese?
You are absolutely correct.
McCain has zero chance in the election against Obamessiah, and about a 20% chance against Missus Clinton.
Right on, Sharon! McClintock (if he plays his cards right) COULD be the next Tancredo in the House. Don’t forget—both Tancredo and Hunter are leaving at year’s end.
That doesn’t work with terrorists or with Democrats.
And POing the conservatives doesn’t get Republicans elected, either.
We’re talking about OHIO, Dane, which is the subject of this post. It was not separated by 3 million; it was separated by 100 grand.
And, the US presidential election is not popular, it is electoral.
Ohio’s electoral votes would have put Kerry over the top instead of Bush. Also, no republican has ever won nationally who has not first won Ohio. (See post #1)
I don't think you remotely understand the depth of betrayal that some life long Republicans (1st vote 1963) like me feel toward the Republican Party.
I think this is a true statement.
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