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McCain’s Re-Election Prospects Look Strong in Arizona [Nuts!]
Congressional Quarterly ^ | 2009-02-28 | Anne L. Kim

Posted on 01/28/2009 7:18:21 AM PST by rabscuttle385

Republican John McCain intends to run in 2010 for a fifth term in the U.S. Senate, and the recent history of senators thwarted in bids for president suggests he’ll be able to rebound smartly from his loss to Democrat Barack Obama in last November’s White House contest.

John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who narrowly lost in 2004 to President George W. Bush, coasted to an easy victory last year for a fifth Senate term. Even South Dakota Democrat George S. McGovern, fresh off his 1972 landslide defeat at the hands of President Richard M. Nixon, came back to win a third Senate term in 1974, though he lost when he went to that well one more time in 1980.

Obama even gave McCain a big break by taking his strongest potential Arizona Democratic challenger out of the picture. Obama selected Janet Napolitano, a popular governor due to run up against the state’s term-limit law in 2010, as his pick to head the Department of Homeland Security. Until she accepted the Cabinet post, Napolitano appeared likely to run for the Senate in 2010, and early hypothetical polls suggested she would be a strong contender.

No one else appears poised to provide such a threat with Napolitano moved on to Washington. The most recent Democratic Senate nominee was Jim Pederson, a wealthy real estate developer who ran a vigorous campaign in 2006 but nonetheless lost to Republican incumbent Jon Kyl by a substantial 10 percentage-point margin. “I doubt he would take on McCain,” said Bruce Merrill, a pollster and professor emeritus at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Merrill said of McCain, “I really don’t think he’s going to have much difficulty being re-elected.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cqpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 2010; amnesty; az2010; immigration; mcbama; mccain; mccaintruthfile; mclame; mcqueeg; rino; senate; ussenate
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Also, FTA:

McCain also needs to refurbish the image that he has sought to burnish throughout his Senate career — as a political maverick willing to buck his party on some major issues....yet he must do so without alienating, and possibly inciting a primary challenge, from the potent conservative wing of the Arizona Republican Party, which has not always been thrilled when McCain has strayed from party orthodoxy on issues such as immigration, campaign finance regulation and global climate change.

Nuts!

1 posted on 01/28/2009 7:18:21 AM PST by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

Well, we should do a fundraiser for whomeever opposes McCain.


2 posted on 01/28/2009 7:19:04 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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To: MaggieCarta; indylindy; roamer_1; calcowgirl; djsherin; Sunnyflorida; SoConPubbie; Sybeck1; ...

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3 posted on 01/28/2009 7:19:12 AM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385

At one time, so did his election to POTUS ...


4 posted on 01/28/2009 7:19:26 AM PST by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Come on. Seriously Arizona, help us out here for goodness sakes, get him OUT.


5 posted on 01/28/2009 7:19:32 AM PST by GoCards
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To: rabscuttle385

In otherwards McLame needs to do what he always does. Try to play both sides of the fence and crap on conservatives.

Thrilled ain’t the word for it.


6 posted on 01/28/2009 7:21:24 AM PST by dforest (life is now good again....he has been inaugurated)
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To: rabscuttle385

I was thinkin’ about teasing you and putting taxlady on there.

heh heh


7 posted on 01/28/2009 7:22:57 AM PST by dforest (life is now good again....he has been inaugurated)
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To: MeanWestTexan

What about JD Hayworth????


8 posted on 01/28/2009 7:23:53 AM PST by GoCards
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To: indylindy; Arizona Carolyn
Try to play both sides of the fence and crap on conservatives.

The good thing about the 2008 electoral results is that Zero was not given a mandate. The bad thing is that the RINO wing of the Republican Party still thinks it can win.

In 2010, conservatives should crap all over McCain and send a message to the rest of the RINOs.

9 posted on 01/28/2009 7:24:02 AM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385
Really? Seriously?

Haven't we had just about enough of him?

10 posted on 01/28/2009 7:24:19 AM PST by AngryJawa (Obama's Success is America's Failure)
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To: indylindy

LOL


11 posted on 01/28/2009 7:24:23 AM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385

J.D. Hayworth, please run against Senator John McCain! Thanks in advance.


12 posted on 01/28/2009 7:24:26 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
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To: rabscuttle385
John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who narrowly lost in 2004 to President George W. Bush

But no doubt Zero won in a landslide?

13 posted on 01/28/2009 7:24:57 AM PST by eclecticEel (The liberal's sense of compassion begins and ends with their own person.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Which party will he run in?


14 posted on 01/28/2009 7:25:13 AM PST by csmusaret (Call any Congresscritter at 1-877-762-8762. Tell them what you think.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Senator!


15 posted on 01/28/2009 7:25:32 AM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: rabscuttle385

10 million illegals can’t be wrong! He must be a good conservative!


16 posted on 01/28/2009 7:25:37 AM PST by MrPiper
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To: rabscuttle385

And the GOP thinks it can win by emulating the Democrats.


17 posted on 01/28/2009 7:25:56 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: rabscuttle385

Hey, they’re still re-electing the former boyfriend of Mary Jo Kopecne in Massachusetts every 6 years, so nothing would surprise me.


18 posted on 01/28/2009 7:26:33 AM PST by laweeks
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To: rabscuttle385

I think McCain will get a strong primary challenge. It is worth remembering that McCain did not even get 50% of the presidential primary vote in AZ, the only “top tier” candidate of either party who failed to do so. And McCain won AZ in the election with just 53.4% of the vote to 44.9% for Obama. Bush won with 54.9% in 2004. McCain is vulnerable.


19 posted on 01/28/2009 7:26:36 AM PST by kabar
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To: MeanWestTexan

I am in IF someone who is a Conservative will run against that POS.


20 posted on 01/28/2009 7:26:44 AM PST by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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