Warning Sign for McCain
A recent Gallup poll, reported on here, has some rather disturbing news for Senator McCain.
Rudy Giuliani and Sen. John McCain typically vie for the lead in Republican preference polls, but a greater percentage of Republicans say they would find Giuliani acceptable than say this about McCain (73% to 55%).
Given that by almost any measure (abortion, gun rights, gay marriage) John McCain is far more conservative than Rudy Giuliani, this figure would suggest that voters are objecting to something personally about John McCain. And that's got to be troubling, because when voters object to a politician's positions, he may be able to "tweak" them (as we may yet see Giuliani do). But if they object to someone personally, that's a lot more difficult to fix.
Note that other potential Republican nominees likewise have even higher "unacceptable" rates, but as the article points out, this is because people don't know them (except, sadly, for Newt Gingrich, a brilliant guy who was raked over the coals by the press during his time in power). But everybody knows Giuliani and McCain.
Rudy Giuliani and Sen. John McCain typically vie for the lead in Republican preference polls, but a greater percentage of Republicans say they would find Giuliani acceptable than say this about McCain (73% to 55%).
Given that by almost any measure (abortion, gun rights, gay marriage) John McCain is far more conservative than Rudy Giuliani, this figure would suggest that voters are objecting to something personally about John McCain. And that's got to be troubling, because when voters object to a politician's positions, he may be able to "tweak" them (as we may yet see Giuliani do). But if they object to someone personally, that's a lot more difficult to fix.
Note that other potential Republican nominees likewise have even higher "unacceptable" rates, but as the article points out, this is because people don't know them (except, sadly, for Newt Gingrich, a brilliant guy who was raked over the coals by the press during his time in power). But everybody knows Giuliani and McCain.
posted by Carol Platt Liebau at 5:11 PM
14 Comments:
What's so great about McCain n the first place?
Mark my words, George Allen
will be the next president!
George Allen is going to lose his senate race and that will be the end of him.
Nope!
Yeap, little confederate flag hugging George lost his 20 point lead in a month and a half.
Carol - The problem with Newt is not his ideas. To be blunt, he has a bad grasp of the human condition. He does not understand when something is funny or not (that I have seen), and he does not appear humble nearly as often as he should.
He would be an excellent analyst at a think-tank. But as one to rise up and inspire a nation, he falls flat. And I'm a Republican!
HouseOfSin, McCain is a RINO!
Given the Republican candidates, it looks like they'll throw the 08 election, so they can blame Democrats for trying to clean up Bush's mess.
George Allen will roll over that little turn-coat Jim Webb, a man so unusually strong on the homosexual agenda that he gives the impression he might have a weekend condo on Christopher Street.
Again, George Allen WILL
be our next president! Don't you just love my confidence!
Cliff,
Jiminy Cricket has a gift for you at:
http://solosong.net/wish.html
JillMartin, I thought you didn't like us anymore. Didn't you say,"There is nothing to learn from this group of morons?"
Here is our next Republican president
http://tinyurl.com/pucmc
I lived in Arizona for many years. McCain married into the liquor fortune there. There are many dark stories (the murder of a newspaper columnist, Don Bolles, is but one), that have led me to be wary of McCain. Arizona, like most states, has an aristocracy that has enormous influence. This is not a value judgement. It is an observation. On the whole, as one who voted for Barry Morris Goldwater, I just don't think that McCain would be a good president. On the other hand Jon Kyl, the other Arizona Senator, would.
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