McCain: The King Of New Hampshire
Washington Times:
Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney continue to slide in New Hampshire while John McCain increases his already healthy lead over the Republican presidential nomination field in the latest Suffolk University-Boston 7News poll released today.
Just six days before the primary, Mr. McCain, in an astonishing comeback after the near bankruptcy of his campaign earlier this year, wins 32 percent of respondents in the new poll.
Mr. Romney takes 23 percent, Mr. Giuliani 11 percent and Mike Huckabee 10 percent. Ron Paul take 8 percent of the respondents and Fred Thompson 2 percent, with Duncan Hunter scraping together 1 percent.
“The question is can McCain survive a third-place finish in Iowa if Romney storms into New Hampshire with a first- or second-place win,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center.
Mr. McCain leads 46 percdent to 24 pecent among older voters — usually the most reliable when it comes to actually going to the polls. The Arizona senator also leads among both registered Republicans and independents.
Independents, once the strong suit for Mr. Romney, put Mr. McCain in the winner’s circle in the 2000 New Hampshire primary.
Mr. Paleologis noted that Mr. Paul’s third-place showing among Independents “may reduce the available independent pie left on election day.” Independents may vote in either the Republican or Democratic primaries.
The poll has Hillary Clinton at 37 percent, Barack Obama at 20 percent, John Edwards at 16 percent and Bill Richardson at 5 percent. Joe Biden gets 3 percent, and Christopher Dodd and Dennis Kucinich get 1 percent each, leaving 16 percent undecided.
In the poll of likey Republican voters, 13 percent were undecided. Mr. Giuliani’s share has declined in six consecutive polls from a high of 37 percent in March of 2007 to the current level of 11 percent as of today.
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AMNESTY man trys again. Let’s see, his conservatives bona fides are, raise taxes, limit free speech, grow government, supports global warming hoax, and don’t forget open borders and AMNESTY. I might have forgot a few … Hey wait, I think those issues describe a liberal, what am I missing.
What’s changed? Other than the media pushing him for the last and final time, I hope.
No point in electing the faux conservative, if all we have is the choice between two liberals, take a pass and let the real one win. Then throwing rocks at them is more fun. Hard to defend your own liberal loon.
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 pmLet’s not forget McCain and Hanoi John’s little trip to Viet Nam, normalizing relations. We know Kerry secured a 600 million dollar port construction deal for his cousin, the head of Collier International. We do not know what McCain got. The VN Commies love him.
We do know the Johns attempted, with Clinton to declare the MIAs dead. John McCain is 100% phoney.
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:08 pmPhoney….you’re pathetic. We have normalized relations with China who killed more Americans in 3 years than Vietnam did 10, and yet we should still act like we are at war? Amnesty? Open borders? Do you know what the fuck you’re talking about? Or is this just idiotic rhetoric rearing its degenerate head? John McCain is a demonstrated patriot who has risked his life on many more than one occasion for his country. He has lived hellish hardships that have left him debilitated, he survived a horrific accident on the USS Forrestal that almost killed him when he tried to save a friend who was consumed by the fires along with 132 sailors. He was injured by shrapnel from exploding ordinance and still he volunteered to fly from the USS Oriskany instead of staying with the USS Forrestal as went back to get repairs. Three months and 22 missions later McCain is shot down over Hanoi, where he was offered an early release but he REFUSED unless everyone who had been held before him were released before him, which left him to be imprisoned for 5 years, 5 years that would see him not knowing if he was going to live or die one day to the next. He is a man who is more than willing to suffer for his country and put his country before himself. Some of you disagree with his domestic politics, fine, that does not make him a phoney or a liberal. This is a man, when 60% of Americans think we should withdraw, is pushing for a policy that would bring effective strategy and commitment to winning the war against al qaeda and the insurgency in Iraq. The only man, Republican or Democrat, who is pushing for more troops in Iraq because he understands that providing security to the Iraqis, which would in turn gain their trust, is the only way to win this war. I find it kind of ironic that on PatDollard.com so many people would come out to bash a demonstrated patriot and American hero as a liberal or worse, a phoney. John McCain is the only man this Iraq war veteran will vote for, if he is not nominated by the Republican party I will refuse to go to the polls for anyone. The idea that you would consider McCain a phoney over the likes of Giuliani, Huckabee, or Mitt Romney is beyond me. You don’t think that those three men have made decisions based on politics alone? At least McCain does what he thinks is right and can think for himself as opposed to blindly following party rhetoric. May God Almighty bless this Patriot and his Patriotic children who put their money where their mouths are.
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 pmJohn McCain is the only candidate of any Party who can unite Americans in the War on Islamist Terror. He ran the table in New Hampshire with endorsements because Americans respond to Straight Talk.
http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-mccain-running-table-in-new.html
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:11 amput me in RememberOurFathers corner…
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 amyou might not like some of his policies but at least you know what you are getting with mccain. i don’t like a good deal of his domestic ideas/voting record but i (like ROF already stated) firmly stand behind his ideas about the war on terror. in a less important time in history, i could possibly see the logic behind bill-tb’s idea of letting a dem win and watching them fail miserably but that would most likely entail a retreat in the war on terror which would allow the terror organizations to regroup and regain strength. great strides have been made both militarily (decimating aq in iraq) and philosophically (some muslims turning on aq in iraq and seeing how backasswards its ideas are in iraq and elsewhere) and it would be a shame to give up the momentum that cost so much in terms of our military losses.
i think you need to rank order your priorities when deciding how to vote in this election. what is most important to you and who do you believe will deliver on your most important priorities is the person you should back. my personnal beliefs (not saying i’m right, just that this is how i see things) are that the war on terror and other foriegn policy issues far outweigh the domestic issues. i will sacrifice domestically for what i believe is the most important (by FAR) issue confronting us for at least the next 10 years. i would vote for lieberman if it came down to him and someone who wanted to retreat in the war on terror even though i hate his domestic/social ideas. i feel it is that important. just my thoughts….