2/26/2008

13 Responses to “Poll: McCain Would Beat Obama or Hillary in Head-to-Head Matchup”

1. This is a VERY significant poll. 1242 respondents over a 4 day period, Th-Sun.

   In addition, on the FIRST day of this poll the anti-McCain story hit the front page of the NYT.

   So, is it possible that McCain’s numbers were suppressed even a little bit by that story?

   WLS (68fd1f) — 2/26/2008 @ 9:22 pm

   
   

2. Why is this good news ?

   JD (851cdc) — 2/26/2008 @ 9:33 pm

   
   

3. This is going to be a great election, that’s for sure.

   Daryl Herbert (4ecd4c) — 2/26/2008 @ 10:44 pm

   
   

4. I’m not convinced. Too many Big Tent Republicans think that sitting out this election will serve to re-invigorate the party for the future. What will end up happening is we will lose the all three branches of government.

   Demetri (c3f397) — 2/26/2008 @ 10:52 pm

   
   

5. With due respect to WLS, and regardless of their particular methodology, general election polls taken now mean almost nothing, other than as a snapshot of how things stand as of today.

   Beldar (098090) — 2/26/2008 @ 11:51 pm

   
   

6. Demetri, your definition of “too many” is probably going to turn out to be pretty damn small.

   Who are these republicans? And why can’t there be twice as many folks who are actually thilled with Mccain? I’ve been voting for the GOP my whole life, and Mccain represents exactly what I want. I’m not alone. Bush didn’t represent me, Reagan did. Reagan, a lifelong democrat who favored amnesty, is a good model for our country right now. Democrats, at least some, are going to vote for Mccain partly because the crazies in the GOP are so unhappy with Mccain. They want someone who is strong on the war, yet they know they are out of tune with Hannity and Rush.

   Those Republicans who sit it out have me thanks. We need as few idiots voting as possible.

   Mccain’s called a turncoat for compromising, but our nation is bitterly divided in a time of war, and it’s a great time to compromise on non-war issues.

   Jem (4cdfb7) — 2/27/2008 @ 1:07 am

   
   

7. Who are these Republicans? The social conservatives and Evangelicals who think McCain doesn’t share their vision. The Fiscal “conservatives” worried more about taxes and spending than Judges and the GWOT. Our fair weather friends, the liberaltarians, have descended into their parents basements where they curse us for not “holding”.

   Who does that leave? Most of us I suppose. Is that enough to beat a god incarnate?

   Demetri (c3f397) — 2/27/2008 @ 2:34 am

   
   

8. No matter who is elected in 2008 all America will suffer horribly over the next couple of decades under the oppressive Greenie thumb.

   When food prices increase 30%, when a gallon of gas is an extra $3 higher than today, when jobs are layed off in the service industry because nobody can afford to move around, when businesses shut down because the operational costs are too heavy for what a Green president accomplished when he/she restricted and prevented America’s right to energy.

   And no bitching please, America is going to elect a Greenie president so you have no right to complain when he/she drives America into miserable poverty.

   I’m voting for the troops and their mission and nothing else. For me I don’t have children to feed, a car to fuel or high property taxes to pay.

   The illegal immigration problem will take care of itself since there will be no jobs available to encourage people to cross barren deserts to get jobs and the newly amnestized will be very eager to leave on their own.

   The growing cost of baby-boomer retirees, on the other hand, is the biggest problem we face other than Global Jihad yet none of the presidential candidates want to even look at this giant elephant in the room.

   Whatever economic good times America has enjoyed over the last three decades will be coming to an end.

   Why America needs to experience a high Misery Index every thirty years is beyond me.

   syn (eb1ff1) — 2/27/2008 @ 5:51 am

   
   

9. And, America’s taxes be they consumption, property, gas, federal, state will be increasing.

   Let up hope that if McCain should win that a Democrat Congress will be willing to reach across the aisle and make the some of the tax cuts permanent, that is if McCain keeps his promise to make tax cuts permanent(his voting record indicates otherwise)

   syn (eb1ff1) — 2/27/2008 @ 6:02 am

   
   

10. As for The Poll, for almost a year The Polls showed Guiliani and Clinton as frontrunners.

    There is no way McCain will be able to defeat Obama.

    syn (eb1ff1) — 2/27/2008 @ 6:35 am

    
    

11. Beldar — I agree completely that its a snapshot of how the race stands today, and lots can happen over 8 months.

    But, given the events of the past 60 days, the fawning press for the Dems in general and Obama in particular, the “enthusiasm gap” that has been so talked about, the fact that McCain re-emerged from a lackluster field after being given up for dead — to now be in a dead heat based on a very large sample poll that shows some real appeal by McCain across party lines is VERY good news, and should be very troubling to Dems.

    With all that has gone their way since Nov. 2006, with the Golden Boy now on the verge of the nomination, and with the GOP having nominated a candidate for whom half the party walks around carrying a stake and a mallet — but the Dems are in a dead heat? You think that makes them happy?

    WLS (68fd1f) — 2/27/2008 @ 11:02 am

    
    

12. I agree with Syn. I have been bitching for years about the enviro wacko’s. I bought into it in the 60 & 70’s when I thought there was a problem. For the most part our water, air, carbon levels, ozone levels are fine. Once again, what started as a good movement, because of the imbedded powers, is now out of control. Animals are more important than people, we can’t drill for oil when we own it, instead make our nation weaker by giving our dollars to our enemies in order to import oil. And now the dumbest idea of all – Bio Fuels – only an idiot would think this is a good idea. But if it was, why don’t we import the corn where it is much cheaper instead of diverting our own crops to this very low grade fuel. We would not make a dent in our energy needs if we converted 80% of farm land to corn, bio fuel production

    steve (3fd4ea) — 2/27/2008 @ 5:09 pm

    
    

13. This is going to be a nasty election. The Dems are just beginning to realize that the guy on the white horse riding to the coronation is another McGovern, but they just can’t stop loving him. The MSM see it as their sacred duty to rescue the Dems from these infatuations, and there is only one way that can be done – by destroying their opponents.

    The fact that the MSM has slobbered all over McCain for years for backstabbing Bush will just make it harder. They can’t just say they have suddenly awakened to him… they have to pull a huge nasty October surprise out of the hat to explain how they got him all wrong. And they will.

    “McCain lied us into liking him!” Wait for it.

    sherlock (b4bbcc) — 2/27/2008 @ 8:35 pm