McCain Spin Begins
McCain wins New Hampshire... and almost immediately it's being reported that he won because of independents and people are arguing that he has no chance among real conservatives in later primaries.
But is this true?
The exit polls show us:
McCain came in second with the overall conservative vote and third in the very conservative, just behind Huckabee.
But what do these numbers tell us?
McCain got the strongest support from independents and moderates than any other candidate. This is extremely helpful in general elections where independents and moderates make up a large portion of the general election voters.
McCain got the strongest support from Republicans than any other candidate.
McCain had more conservative supporters than moderate or liberal supporters.
In spite of what Rush Limbaugh and other pundits have claimed, a huge portion of "very conservative" voters came out for McCain and Huckabee.
Romney got the most support from "very conservative" voters but not from gun owners, not from religious voters, not from people who want to reduce the deficit, and didn't do significantly better on taxes, with McCain coming in a strong second in taxes.
A good win for McCain, no matter how much people attempt to spin the results to justify their attempts to paint McCain as a liberal.They obviously despise McCain on previous disagreements that they cannot see beyond. Fortunately the voters clearly can. Even on immigration most voters opposed the more extreme views. And the ones that held the extreme views? They mostly voted for candidates labeled "weak" on immigration by the extremists.
The extremists are losing and will probably only get more desperate, more deceptive, more hysterical, and more spiteful than what we saw in New Hampshire with the Romney/Tancredo segment.
3 comments:
They obviously despise McCain on previous disagreements that they cannot see beyond. Fortunately the voters clearly can.
"Fortunately"? We are talking about the guy who got smacked around by Bush in 2000 and then proceeded to sell-out his maverick status to buddy up to the same idiot, right?
Bonus points if you go to DailyKos in 2003 or so and dig up the post where people fantasize about McCain crossing over and running as a Dem in 2004.
Same crap happened with Lieberman and Zell Miller when they agreed with the Republicans on an issue.
All sorts of yahoos on the Dem side wrote them off as being nothing more than Republicans in Dem clothing while Republicans hooted and hollered it up as confirmation of their beliefs.
Does this make Lieberman or Miller Republicans considering all their other stances? No.
And just as McCain's views on requiring 3/5 votes for tax increases, keeping and in some cases even increasing the Bush tax cuts, drastically cutting spending which he has consistently done in the Senate for decades, wanting private care available for veterans, his pro-life views, his gay marriage views, his support for school choice, his support of increasing the size of the military generally, etc etc...
If you point to the few similarities and ignore the vast amount of evidence to the contrary he may be a favorite of DailyKos. But to draw that conclusion would require all that ignorance.
Might as well call vegetarians Nazis... its the same fallacy.
If the relative positions of the Dems and GOP weren't so fucked up relative to where the left and the right actually are, Lieberman would definitely be a Republican. The man lost his primary, and I really think he should have lost his seniority for running on a third party ticket. And if Zell isn't a DINO, what the hell was that speech at the GOP National Convention?
Besides, my point wasn't that he's a RINO, it's that he's just as bad as the GOP field, and his "Maverick" label is only that, a label, and nothing more.
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