McCain has been drifting right since Bush in order to shore up his republican credentials. He talks a good game in the "marverick" center, but his votes are with the right.
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McCain has been drifting right since Bush in order to shore up his republican credentials. He talks a good game in the "marverick" center, but his votes are with the right.
maybe, but check the pulse on most political shows out there, hillary and mccain are generally tossed about as practically settled cantidates already. probabilities are what they are, but at this level, politics are very much about name recognition, and those two are who most people know, even if they dont know them well. guiliani would lose way too much of the republican social conservative base, not just on gays, but abortion too. and i dont think he would get enough swing democrats becuse he still would be more fiscally conservative than whomever they will run. so i dont see him getting the nod, and if he does, i see the democrat walking into office unimpeded.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
funny thing is, they always were, the idea that he is anything less than a just moderate conservative is fiction created by the bush team, he is and always has been a conservative, he just had some ability to comprimise and deal with other people better.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarsKitten
McCain is unabashadly fake. This needs to be recognized universally.
Yea thats true but Kerry was dead in the water until the Iowa caucus. There's so much time and a full midterm election before the Presidential election. Honestly I think when all is said and done you'll see someone like Mitt Romney, especially if the MA health care thing works.Quote:
maybe, but check the pulse on most political shows out there, hillary and mccain are generally tossed about as practically settled cantidates already.
It'd be weird to see what kind of vote a Massachusetts republican gets
yeah that seems to be the other thing to remember before the elections, the media picks some guy who wont win and hypes the fuck out of him. dean, mccain, hell buchanan. its like they enjoy toying with them or something. remember how dean was supposed to be the electrifying newcomer and he got steamrolled everywhere.
Dean was electrifying because he got his support from grassroots, not the rich Democratic consultants on K Street. It's a complex thing. On one hand, people in Iowa and shit didn't vote for him so maybe he wasn't the guy. Or maybe he was because he built up a huge amount of support from commoners. It really did seem like he was abandoned by the DNC pretty early on in favor of Kerry and Edwards. Now that Dean is head of the DNC you can be pretty sure that wont happen again. Or not. Paul Hackett got jobbed in Ohio.Quote:
Originally Posted by frostwolf ex
Well, you can tell the DNC Chair was the peace offering to Dean by the party. They liked his ability to get ground-up support, but they weren't going to let it get in the way of the big campaigning machine. He's alright in his position now, especially since he draws so much shit from the right-wing talking heads. That's what a DNC Chairman should do, talk shit about the opposition unabashedly.
His work is essentially cut out for him in the Congress, people have sat for six years under a Republican controlled government and they're already sick of it. The so-called 'Contract with America' has been rendered null and void. If the Dems were smart they'd roll out something similiar, but even if they don't they're almost guaranteed atleast a few choice seats.
I dont know who is up for election here in the Garden State but I am voting straight Democrat. I never thought I would do that. My mom is doing that too, and she has never done it.
In NJ, it's a damn shame our best governor ever was appointed to fill the space after the McGreevey disgrace, and didn't run for reelection.