Gee, what could explain this. McCain should be surging there, no? And in a statistical dead heat in Tennessee, Romney has higher favorables than McCain? Have people been talking about John McCain to somebody? ; )
Before Florida’s Primary results transformed the Republican race, Huckabee led McCain by a point in Missouri while Romney was nine points off the pace.
One can hope. h/t Bill M. from comments.
Dan, Rasmussen has it tied at 30 percent nationally with garden skunk Huckabee at 21.
If Romney can keep it from being a blowout Tuesday he may keep Cpt.Amnesty from having enough delegates to cruise in.
The critical thing is to hope Huckabee doesn't get many delegates in 3 days because a "corrupt bargin" is probably coming later on with St.John.
P.S.- how corrupt does Fox News look with that "mcCain by 50 poll"- God, what happened to these people.
Posted by: jjshaka | Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Without that +28% number nationally from Fox, McCain drops from +11.4% on the RCP average to +6.3% average of 4 other polls. Rupert Murdoch did endorse McCain if I am not mistaken.
Posted by: Henry Martin | Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 01:17 PM
Actually Henry, he endorsed HRC.
Posted by: Kaitian | Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 02:05 PM
The NY Post (owned by Murdoch) endorsed McCain and Clinton.
Posted by: centralcal | Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 02:22 PM
"how corrupt does Fox News look with that "mcCain by 50 poll"- God, what happened to these people."
Fox is FAIR and BALANCED. Be sure to tune in daily to find out what the terrurr threat level is. Best wishes for your elderly candidate.
Posted by: BobInStamford | Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 02:31 PM
Sweet Jesus, we can only hope. The MSM has been over the top on their McCain promotion. If you listen to them you wonder why even bother voting on Tuesday as the race is over.. Fox has been just as bad as the rest of them.
Posted by: Girlygirl | Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 02:31 PM
FoxNews
"We Decide, You Comply..."
Posted by: Bill Mitchell | Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 03:41 PM
Until this presidential primary, I was a fox fan. The only tv that I watched. Now if I want to know what's going on with Romney, I have to switch between CNN,MSNBC or just get on the internet. Fox has really lost me as a watcher.
Go Mitt!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Kim | Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 04:20 PM
The Maine results are coming in and it looks like Romney is going to pick up the state with a majority vote. Paul's #2 in the state. So far from what I see, it's Romney 53% Paul 21% McCain 18% Huckabee 5%.
There's 26 delegates in the air for today I believe.
Posted by: Kaitian | Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 05:22 PM
I'm convinced that the MSM is now one giant hive-mind owned by the same group of people.
All one great big leftist cabal. Fox particularly and especially included.
Posted by: seekeronos | Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 08:15 PM
As a card-carrying member of the They All Suck(tm) club, I almost hope that the Mittwits get their wish and their guy ends up beating McCain out for the nomination. It'll be amusing watching them eat crow either on election day, when Plastic Man loses in a landslide to either Hillary or Obama; or, failing that, when he gets into office and proceeds to revert to the RINOism that he's subscribed to all his life. My answer: "You guys were saying something about McCain being unelectable and/or a traitor to conservatism?"
Posted by: BC | Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 09:16 PM
A big check against any "suspected" reversion to RINOism from Romney would be his desire to see a second term.
McCain on the other hand - his "maverickness" aside - knows that his meter is running down, and doesn't expect to be around for a second term - and that makes him even more unaccountable.
And upon a more thorough review (despite my earlier accusations of flip-floppery) I think Mitt has indeed evolved to a pro-life and pro-family position.
Posted by: seekeronos | Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 09:45 PM
From his Issues page from his site:
(1) Increase the military by 100,000 troops (hopefully that's now obsolete given progess in Iraq)
(2) Integrate "all elements of national power" into a "Special Partnership Force" to fight terrorism, or "jihadism" as he puts it (Constitution much?)
(3) Diplomatic and Economic saber rattling sanctions with Iran, and an intriguing idea for a special Ambassador-At-large to preventnuclear terrorism.
(4) Tough on socialist Latin American countries, bu nice to capitalist Latin American countries
(5) Tax cuts! Tax cuts! Tax cuts! (Are we going to have offsetting spending cuts, or are we just going to have offsetting tax increases to the poor by printing greenbacks and inflating the currency?)
(6) Throw money at research for new fuel sources, build nuke plants, open ANWAR
(7) "Veto domestic nondefense discretionary appropriations that increase spending by more than inflation minus one percent." Plus a call for a line-item veto and dealing with entitlement-deficits. (Bold if earnest)
(8) Build the Great Wall of CaliArizTexas, kick hispanics out, punish those who dare to contract with them for goods/labor/services on mutually beneficial terms, and succeed at doing the cat-herding to reform the legal immigration system when many have failed before to do.
(9) Deregulate medical regulations and give Insurance Defense lawyers a break with tort reform. Throw in more tax cuts! "Use some of the money currently spent on providing expensive 'free care' for the uninsured at emergency rooms to instead help the truly needy buy private insurance." (An allusion to his "health insurance = auto insurance" policies in MA)
(10) Ban gay marriage, reverse Roe v. Wade, strengthen 2nd amendment rights and ban campaign finance reform. Ominous references to "Software Filters To Guard Children From Online Pornography" and to "Enforce Our Nation's Obscenity Laws". Praised Bush's Faith-based initiatives.
(12) More school choice and standardized testing, with references to award good teachers with better pay.
Good: Seems like he may be more of a fiscal conservative and pro-free market type than Bush or McCain are. He also has the credentials and energy to be a good manager and effect his policies, also unlike John McCain or George Bush. A review of the guy's life shows he's basically been the best at everything he's done. And if he can convince French people to become Mormans, he should be able to convince moderatesto vote for him over Hill-bama.
Bad: HUGE Defense conservative who's drinking the anti-immigration Kool Aid and looking to "streamline" the justice/security system of the federal an state governments a little too much. Might also get all censory on us, even on the internet. (Though some of my less-libertarian conservative friends may see these a feature and not a bug). Nevertheless, he's no Milton Friedman when it comes to government interference in the economy.
Analysis: I'll take him over the current crop of asshats. I'm a closet supporter of Ron Paul, but he's like a dog chasing the car: in the unlikely chance he actually caught it, I'd doubt he'd know what to do with it.
Posted by: Protagonist | Sunday, February 03, 2008 at 01:34 AM
centralcal: As someone who lives in NYC and reads Murcoch's NY Post newspaper daily, let me correct you. The Post has endorsed McCain and OBAMA, not McCain and Clinton.
Yes, somehow the Post has snubbed Rupert's good buddy Hillary. But still embraces McLame, who it endorsed over Bush in 2000.
Posted by: BigJay | Sunday, February 03, 2008 at 05:19 AM