Addressing the conservative base could shore up the narrow margin for John McCain among Arizonans as he enters the crucial waning days in the race for the White House.
The latest KAET Cronkite-Eight Poll provides these stunning figures:
McCain 38%
Obama 26%
Undecided 34%
The campaign is obviously aware of these lagging numbers, given the statement made earlier this month in which he referred to Arizona as a “swing state,” and adding Arizona to its list of 24 “battleground states.”
McCain had a 50-39 percent lead over Obama in a Phoenix-based Behavior Research Center poll released May 23, 2008.
As Arizona’s favorite son, McCain’s numbers should be escalating rather than plummeting. He could reach out to conservatives in his own party to ratchet them up.
No surprises here. The Independents and Dems are NOT the ones who are out in the summer heat and busting their chops getting out the vote. Still they are the ones McCain makes repeated overtures to while excluding the base of the GOP. Conservatives have been thrown under the wheels of the straight talk express too many times to be energized for this candidate. This country loses wither way. What a sad state of affairs.
That is a phony liberal poll. As a Republican candidate for Congress in the Fourth C.D. against Ed Pastor, I know John McCain will win the state in such a landslide that he will carry me into the Capitol with him. McCain can’t lose!
What’s wrong with the strategy team that they can’t see the plain facts? No Republican I know will support BHO, but there are far too many who hold McCain with the same contempt he has given them throughout the years. Why can’t he suck in that inflated ego and talk to conservatives? He has held close door late night meetings with Hispanics promising them amnesty. How about a late night closed door meeting with GOP grassroots activists, where he can promise us he’ll act like a Republican? No one will know. We can keep a secret.
Well Kent,
My guess might be why he doesn’t suck up to you, “THE CONSERVATIVES” in name only.
He knows you well.
He knows you all
BOOTH OF YOU
Do you mean “both?” A booth is a place where tickets are sold.
Obviously a nudist atheist (I’ve read your comments enough to know this) with extra cash to spread around is more to his liking than the conservatives who have gone the extra mile for him since his early days in congress.
There are more than a couple of us, which is why the polling numbers are so low.
McCain may win. Obama may win. Either way, we lose. What a catastrophe one arrogant fool like McCain can wreck upon the world. He sure won’t get my female vote. Here I come Mr. Barr.
What an economic giant this McCain is eh? He could not imagine what a wreck his “no drill” votes would have on the economy of the U.S. and world. Runaway inflation, loss of jobs, stock market chaos…..just a few of the outcomes McCain could not imagine. Hey, but we all need the exercise we get by being force to ride bikes, and look what McCain’s “no drill” votes have done to combat global warming. Our next President, John McCain….he is the one on the bike.
If McCain loses it will only be due to his own ongoing arrogance and his attitudes towards his own party.