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New Hampshire Primary - early prediction thread | 92 comments (92 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Do you seriously think McCain is competitive in the Presidential ? If this is an election to move into the 21st century then McCain is back to Goldwater '64. Maybe even Nixon '60.

This is a man wreathed in the garlands of past failed ideas, there is nothing of the future about him. Even his website smells of mildew.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jan 8th, 2008 at 11:22:06 AM EST
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All good points. But I'm not sure about them, honestly. Part of the reason I'm not sure comes from the fact that, as you know, the press has produced this huge image of McCain as some kind of maverick. We all know that's not the case, that he's really a hard core militarist, but his base has always been the press, not the Republicans. Needless to say, that's a powerful ally.

McCain can run on experience against Edwards and Obama. I don't think it'd be enough to win the day, because I lean towards the belief that he's ultimately doomed by the war.

Your Nixon comparison is one I've thought of. McCain would look old and tired next to either E or O, and it likely becomes a Kennedy-Nixon thing, but I'm just hesitant to count him out because of the cult built around him by the media.

Certainly against Clinton, I'd worry it would completely ruin us.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Tue Jan 8th, 2008 at 11:46:56 AM EST
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Good job it won't be Clinton then.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jan 8th, 2008 at 12:59:34 PM EST
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Re: New Hampshire Primary (none / 0)

Well, to her credit, she does poll pretty well in some key states. In some polls, better than both Edwards and Obama. But given the cult around McCain the Maverick(TM) and Hillary the Great Divider(TM), I think we'd run the risk of losing the independents -- not because of a love for McCain, necessarily, but because we'd be fighting to stop McCain from raising her negatives to the point that independents don't show up as we need them to.

I think I'd still bet on Hillary, but I'd worry.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Tue Jan 8th, 2008 at 01:40:42 PM EST
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Re: New Hampshire Primary (none / 0)

I agree with most of what you say, but I do believe that you underestimate the ability of the American public to be snookered by the myth of Reaganism once again. McCain is attempting it and I suggest that it could work. Democrats are already dreading the idea of running against McCain.

by shergald on Wed Jan 16th, 2008 at 08:45:38 AM EST
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