Thread: McCain's Unimpressive South Carolina Win

You won't hear this analysis on Fox News. But please, spread the word to any contacts you have in Florida about the real record of John "Amnesty" McCain. This was posted in the National Review:
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
Michael Graham

...tell me again how McCain is winning?

As I predicted here at NRO, John McCain came out on top in South Carolina by getting the same 1/3rd of the vote in the Palmetto State that he got in New Hampshire and Michigan. But did he "win?"

In 2000, running against George W. Bush and the entire Carroll Campbell machine in South Carolina, John McCain got 42% of the vote, and 240,000 votes out of 573,000 or so cast.

Tonight, he got 33% of the vote in a field where his top challengers—Romney and Giuliani—aren't even running, and 135,000 actual votes. If just the same people who voted for McCain in 2000 had voted for him today, he would have won 50+% of the South Carolina vote. That would have been truly impressive.

Instead, John McCain LOST the support of 100,000 people—and he's the winner?

McCain had the same "success" in New Hampshire (McCain, 2000: 48%, 116,000 votes; McCain 2008: 37%, 89,000 votes) and Michigan (2000: 50%, 600,000 votes; 2008: 30%, 257,000 votes).

Yes, overall participation in the GOP primaries is down this year—a fact that should concern Republicans regardless of who they choose as their nominee. But that doesn't mitigate McCain's overall weakness. In fact, as the one person who's run for president before and who is touted as a crossover candidate with broad appeal, his slice of the electoral pie should have MORE impact as the number of challengers rises and the number of voters declines.

McCain is a weak candidate by any measure. Only once in his two presidential races has John McCain ever won a majority of the vote, and that was Michigan in 2000. He has yet to crack 40% of the vote this year, and he's done even worse among self-identified Republicans (as opposed to independents and crossover Democrats).

If you really want to see McCain's weakness, however, try this thought experiment:

It's October, 2008. America's economy is in a recession. People are demanding change and new ideas, someone to give them optimism and hope on domestic issues. On stage, facing off in their final presidential debate to discuss jobs, economic policy and hope for the future are John McCain and Barack Obama.

And be sure to imagine how it will look on television, and to people who don't really follow politics (they are, after all, the swing voters who will pick the next president).

Now, tell me again how any Republican won tonight...?

01/19 10:59 PM

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I see the gop sabatoging it's own self. None of the GOP "frontrunners" could beat the democrats. It's over for the GOP. A lot of republicans aren't voting and a lot are changing party's. Many are going independent, and I know not ONE person in my Ron Paul meet up is staying in the republican party. I am a long time republican, and I changed my party to Libertarian after I voted for Ron paul the other day. GOP RIP.

I'll do everything I can to get the word out.

The only one who has a BLOC is McCain..
Go Ron Paul..Go Huck...Go Thompson
Keep Cheering because your choices are going to be McCain/Clinton
Wave that Ron Paul sign all you want..
Unless the Base supports One Candidate..it will be McCain..

It's just media spin. Super Tuesday is what we really have to wait for.

Check out CNN's "analyst"'s comments:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/19/ ... index.html

I've edited the title of this post so people can more easily see the author's point. Obviously though, we still have to get the word out ASAP to voters on McCain's extreme pro-amnesty stance and liberal record in many areas. The MSM is pushing him but time and he remains our biggest threat.

It was stated again many times this morning that we are now
entering closed state primaries

McCain will not have the indy voters to bail him out

Also there has been very little commentary on super Tuesday as
to who is running where in each state ,

The only one who has a BLOC is McCain..
Go Ron Paul..Go Huck...Go Thompson
Keep Cheering because your choices are going to be McCain/Clinton
Wave that Ron Paul sign all you want..
Unless the Base supports One Candidate..it will be McCain..


Ron Paul supporters come as republicans, independents and even democrats. Paul has totally different policies than those other candidates mentioned above, so if you think Paul supporters are going to go away and support another candidate; think again. Many are first time voters drawn to the republican party by Paul. They will be loyal to the end, and will not accept the notion to vote for the lesser of the evils.

Originally Posted by Dianne

The only one who has a BLOC is McCain..
Go Ron Paul..Go Huck...Go Thompson
Keep Cheering because your choices are going to be McCain/Clinton
Wave that Ron Paul sign all you want..
Unless the Base supports One Candidate..it will be McCain..


Ron Paul supporters come as republicans, independents and even democrats. Paul has totally different policies than those other candidates mentioned above, so if you think Paul supporters are going to go away and support another candidate; think again. Many are first time voters drawn to the republican party by Paul. They will be loyal to the end, and will not accept the notion to vote for the lesser of the evils.

Keep in mind , By not supporting a viable candidate now you could end up with the worse of 2 evils (I don't really think Romney is evil at all compared to McCain )

Originally Posted by Dianne

The only one who has a BLOC is McCain..

Nope, Romney is doing well among conservative voters, and even beat Huckabee among evangelicals in Michigan.