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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:22 PM
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Poll question: Let's try this again. Which GOP candidate do you worry about the most?
The pundits are saying that whoever wins the Florida GOP primary will be their frontrunner.

Which GOP candidate makes you the most nervous?

(feel free to elaborate below)
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:24 PM
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1. just one month ago, I posted a similar poll
and several Hillary supporters attacked me for being anti-DU.


I STILL think that McCain will be the nominee and the most dangerous.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:25 PM
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4. I don't see how acknowledging the enemy...
is anti-DU at all.

Our candidate will be running against one of these guys, after all.
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:26 PM
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5. agreed.
I suspect that the GOP WILL have someone, despite our best efforts.

and I suspect that that person may pose a problem to one of our candidates.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:24 PM
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2. Personally,
I'm stuck between McCain and Romney.

McCain has great pull with moderates and independents, but not the base.

Romney has the possibility of uniting the base.

It's almost a toss-up for me.
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rwheeler31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:24 PM
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3. I do not worry about any of them, their supporters need help.
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:27 PM
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6. I voted McCain - he still has a lot of people fooled that he's a moderate Republican,
that he's a sincere and honest man, that he cares about people and that he helps vets, the elderly and the poor. It's all B.S.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:38 PM
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7. Mitt R-money
Do not underestimate him.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:54 PM
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8. I'm leaning towards him as well.
I think that McCain will alienate the base. And as long as the Dems nominate someone who attracts Independents, they should be able to beat McCain easily. Plus, McCain sucks on the economy.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 09:44 PM
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9. McCain is already being trashed by his own party
He's disliked intensely from within the GOP. They will eat their own. Limbaugh is murdering him on the radio every day, just for one example.

Never, ever underestimate Mitt R-money. He is a real danger. He connects well with the hard-line conservatives.
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nonconformist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 11:16 PM
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17. I don't see Mittens pulling that fundie vote, and they NEED it
Then again, stranger things have happened.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 10:18 PM
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10. A McCain/Huckabee Ticket Would be a Nightmare for Us
The "swing voters" love McCain because the MSM told them to. He's a "maverick" so they say.
Huckster would pull in the Fundie vote. They can wait for Cain to croak and then their guy will be in charge.


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Seen the light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 10:21 PM
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12. Do you really think independents would vote for McCain over Obama?
The old guy that's for the war? Really?

Besides, what good will swing voters do him when his own base won't get out and support him?
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 11:08 PM
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14. The Mighty Slime Machine Has Been Marketing McCain as a "Moderate" and a "Maverick" for Years
It's all phoney, of course, but swing voters just lap up that sort of thing.

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krabigirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 10:19 PM
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11. none of the above
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InvisibleTouch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 10:28 PM
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13. Honestly? Not a one.
They're all losers. I worry a bit about Diebold, though.
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 11:09 PM
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15. None of the above.
I won't lose a bit a sleep over any of them regardless of who our nominee is.
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nonconformist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 11:15 PM
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16. McCain, because he has this image of being a moderate
When he's anything but.
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 11:21 PM
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18. I've said McCain all along, and that's what I still think. n/t
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