He looks constipated.
Posted on 07/25/2008 9:03:18 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Republican John McCain is tightening the presidential race against Democratic rival Barack Obama in four key states, according to polls released Thursday.
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I didn't see this posted anywhere.
Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin..
Interesting...
I will be stunned and amazed if McCain takes MN.
I thought Obama’s poll numbers were inflated to begin with. When I heard last week that McCain was going to visit an oil rig, I actually felt like things had turned. The photo op will be nice, but I think McCain will actually use the price of oil to his advantage. Which means a McCain win, and the democrats losing some seats in the house. Maybe the gop loses in the senate are kept to a minimum.
Haha or Wisconsin lol
Yes, but how’s he doing in the other 53 states?
LOL
McCain picks Romney as VP and he shoots up 10 points in the polls.
Wonder what once can attribute this to? Advertising? McCain’s policies? Barack’s Messiah Complex?
Wow!
Just wait until he starts campaigning!
I know!
Drilling is a HUGE issue!
We could cripple the Democratic party with this issue.
If McCain picks Mutt Romney he will put Hussein up by 20 points.
He’s listening. I believe he was just in LA touting how the lifting of the offshore drilling ban helped lower the price of oil. And I believe his staff is planning a trip to an oil rig. He’s finally found a issue that he, and conservatives are united on and he’ll use it to crush obama. At this point looking at the even poll numbers, I think McCain carries 40 plus states. This isn’t going to be close. But then of course we have to deal with President McCain.
Yeah but maybe the gas prices will go down lol
I disagree. Romney's economic background would bury barry even deeper.
That’s still better that President Obama and First Lady Straightrazor.
I agree. While Minnesotans are as down-to-earth and commonsense as the rest of middle America, the fact that they are mostly Scandinavian makes them (in my view) excessively sympathetic to the underdog in general and white privilege in particular. Minnesotans are the type of white who, while basically conservative, would vote for a black man just to expiate the nation's collective guilt.
Wisconsin is the same although less so. So many are of German extraction and there is a much more practical and logical streak in someone with German heritage.
Michigan votes like Missouri -- first for economic self-interest, next for patriotic reasons. They will consider the higher benefits versus higher taxes conundrum very carefully. And, once they view Obama as lacking in patriotism, they will swing to McCain for reasons of taxes and patriotism. McCain doesn't need Romney to take Michigan.
Colorado is like none of the above. These descendants of cowboys and frontiersmen are gradually losing their common sense roots and voting for their economic self-interest. But they know a fool when they see one and no doubt Obama is starting to look like one. Hopefully they too will return to the Republican column.
I just can't wait to see what happens in Pennsylvania. This is one state that should easily go to McCain. If it starts to tend to McCain in a significant way, it will put Obama on the defensive and he will swing even further to the center. This will create more doubt elsewhere in the country and lose him support. If Obama loses Pennsylvania he loses the election.
Only in America can a conservative have to choose between two liberals for president. What a country.
You’re right. Just praying there are enough conseratives in the senate to kill any liberal crap that comes our way the next four years.
Just wow. But if his numbers keep tanking, Hillary will be the nominee, although I can’t see her winning Prez if the black vote don’t vote.
Sometimes it only takes one.
Just take a look at the crap Dr. Coburn has stopped so far.
Romney will be McCains fiber
Yeah. I would love for a conservative to get on the floor of the senate and have a good old fashioned filibuster. Lowering oil and energy prices should be the focus of it.
Just say no to Obama!.....
Romney helps McCain poll numbers in Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado, and the Northwest..... and other states.
Those who support McCain now will not drop off because of the VP, especially not someone as mainstream conservative as Romney.
Bottom line: Romney’s passion and rhetoric should only help the GOP push its conservative, America-first message.
I can only hope the McCain people taped a LOT of those gaffs and anti-American statements Obama made on his trip, not to mention the fact Obama refused to visit with injured troops in Germany.
B.O. will be stale bread by November (moldy, too.)
Mitt Romney would cost McCain considerably in the South. The anti-Mormon bias here is much stronger than is realized outside the area. Romney is a dividing factor, not a resume enhancer. As the McCain advisor put it, “Romney costs us with all the groups we are trying most to win over.”
It’s the gas prices, stupid.
That’s not what the polling says. With Romney, McCain wins Michigan, Ohio, Colorado, Nevada and has a chance at Wisconsin. With anyone else, he falls behind.
I don’t know. I’m an evangelical Christian and Romney’s Mormonism did give me pause, but I did vote for Romney in the primary. It was sort of one strike against him in my mind but not the deciding factor. Then again, I’m not from the South.
Still, I think Southern evangelical Christians would feel much more comfortable voting for Romney as VP rather than for President, don’t you? I mean, I do.
I really, really liked Romney in the debates. I thought he was great, and he seems intelligent, and he seems like a nice man. Not too conservative though, a pity.
They will do as they did with Dole vs Clinton when Dole’s votes made him look less than stellar, they will stay home.
Excellent analysis. You capture the big picture and communicate it succinctly.
Only in America? You should check out the choices that you get in western Europe. In most countries, there is no one to vote for whom an American conservative would recognize more than slightly. The most overtly conservative in rhetoric (Sarkozy or Berlusconi, for example) are hard to distinguish in practical policy agenda from Obama. When the rhetoric gets more squishy (the Tories in the U.K.) the politics gets even more left.
Even in the countries with the most robust proportional representation system, which in theory should mean that the most conservative 10% or 15% should have a party to represent them and not be a throw-away vote, you find nothing to the right of where you’d find a typical southern or rural Democrat in the U.S.
The only place to find American-style conservatism is in Eastern Europe. Market-oriented, tough-on-crime, tax-cutting and even socially-conservative parties abound in number and regularly have influence there. The true legacy of Thatcherism won’t be found so much in London as it is found in Prague and Warsaw...
Romney would take Ohio from the McCain and push it back to BO.
The more attention the media focuses on this loser, the worse Obama looks. He can’t handle the attention because he is naive, inexperienced,confused, and really has no direction or program except to get elected. If he switches on off-shore drilling he looses, if he doesn’t he looses.
If things continue this way, that lucky Irish-American John McCain may just pull out a miracle by doing little or nothing while his opponents implode before him.
Its really sweet watching Dems first slit eachother’s throats, then look like idiots trying to pretend their “Emperor” is wearing new clothes!!!
Just wait until he starts campaigning!
I have a feeling that we'll be saying the same thing in the last week of October.
This campaign reeks of the Dole disaster - I guess Dole either thought he had no chance, or that he was entitled to the position because of his resume. Even though I don't much care for McCain, I hope he doesn't sit on his duff like Dole for much longer, as I think that Obambi the Obamessiah will be a huge disaster for us on many fronts.
Why settle for Romney. How about Gov. Mark Sanford - young, with executive experience, a proven economic conservative (he once went to the state house with 2 pigs, to criticize the Republican-controlled legislature that overrode some of his vetoes). He also won against in incumbant Dem governor, and is a genuine conservative on a multitude of issues (and he'll only be 56 in 2016).
Governor Mark Sanford will be the anti-Romney in many senses - and he'd ensure a super-solid South for McCain.
(Actually, the response I’ve been waiting for is, “When he campaigns, his numbers will drop!”)
I have long felt this was another “Hey! It’s my turn!” campaign. But he’d better d****d well get his hinder in gear, maybe play the Rocky theme-song or something, and get the heck going.
I hope someone in that campaign has a clue.
In Madison WI - where you still see thousands and thousands of tattered John Kerry bumper stickers on cars you would expect as many O stickers and yard signs. Not so. I drove around the rich, white and left neighborhoods this past weekend, and guess what? Only a very few signs on either cars or lawns. Maybe all the lesbians are still mad about Hillary. But it is kind of odd.
Somebody call Karl Rove
If you remember in the primaries.. Hillary won some of those places in huge landslides.
That’s a change I can believe in. As of right now, I still cannot vote for McCain, but as he keeps his mouth shut, he keeps helping me limp that direction.
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