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PPP's new Arizona poll finds that John McCain has a negative approval rating with Republican primary voters, and is at pretty serious risk of losing nomination for another term. Only 35% of GOP voters approve of the job McCain is doing to 50% who disapprove. He's in particularly poor standing with conservative voters. Among 'somewhat conservative' voters his approval spread is 33/52, and among 'very conservative' voters it drops all the way down to 18/67.
McCain is polling at only 39% in the Republican primary field. He's benefiting from having multiple opponents. Kelli Ward is at 26%, Alex Meluskey at 4%, Scott McBean at 3%, and Clair Van Steenwyk at 2%. 27% are undecided. McCain is very strong among moderates, leading Ward 60-10. But among 'somewhat conservative' voters he leads just 34-29, and with 'very conservative' ones he's down 35-28. When you narrow the field down to just a choice between McCain and Ward, it's a tie at 41%. Ward is polling this competitively at this point despite having only 41% name recognition.
Even if McCain does manage to survive the Republican primary, it's not going to be a walk in the park for him in the general. His overall approval rating is 34/52, and he leads Ann Kirkpatrick only 42/36 in a head to head match up. The race is close despite Kirkpatrick having only 58% name recognition at this point. If Ward advances to the general election it looks like this contest will basically be a toss up- she gets 37% to 35% for Kirkpatrick so it's pretty much a wash.
You know I think the best part of this whole thing is that McCain did it to himself by bringing Palin to the national stage where she immediately energized the radical right which is now using conservative purity tests to force any potentially reasonable Republican out of office.
And believe it or not at one time John McCain was actually a very reasonable Republican.
Almost impossible to remember that fact these days.
Looks like Trump learned his lesson quickly... Keep Sarah Palin away from your Presidential campaign! McCain learned the hard way.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of, it's interesting that Palin's not been tweeting and posting on Facebook. She had posted about Mother's Day and then there was just that one freaky venting about Paul Ryan when he was going to meet with Trump (and then Trump said she was a free agent). She never posted before the primary that was going to be held back then and never congratulated Trump after, and she never posted before yesterday's primary and there's no post today.
Delete$arah gets chumped by trump
DeleteMother's Day? What happened with that? Bristol was all in a tizzy b/c the MOH had Sailor for Mother's Day. It turns out the baby they've been fighting over was with her
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Tripp was with his mother and father. Bristol was fine with that.
I think she's worried about something.
DeleteTime for the entire crew to GET REAL JOBS.
DeleteVote for John Country First McCain
ReplyDeleteI agree, McCain, such a patriot. Ask anyone in the Hanoi Hilton or anyone with a POW family member. Perhaps it wasn't so bad if palin was his vp because it led to his demise. He did not deserve to win, palin or not.
DeleteMcCain's response to Cindy suggesting that his hair was thinning...back in the early 90's on the campaign trail...was, "At least I don't trowel on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt."
ReplyDeleteMcCain also said "Chelsea Clinton is so ugly because Janet Reno is her father".
DeleteReak charmer that McCain. Why is his daughter Meghan so FAT? If he has to go back home, there will be a divorce shortly afterwards. Cindy hates his guts, just stayed married for the "prestige"
DeleteAnd, he married her for her money. No wonder you never see them anywhere together! They are a couple made in Hell!
DeleteKarma has certainly taken her time to reconcile the books on this parasite. So many journal entries.
ReplyDeleteMcCain shoulders half the blame but I do not hold Alaska harmless for electing Palin as Governor.
ReplyDeleteContext, my friend. When Palin was elected governor, she was just perfecting her deceptive art of pretending to be one thing when she was really devoid of everything - character, integrity and, yes, even basic intelligence.
DeleteMost of us here had no idea she was an evil idiot. You don't get elected on that platform, for sure. In fact, most politicos who have looked back at that gubernatorial cycle believe people weren't voting FOR Palin as much as they were voting against the incumbent - Frank the Bank - as he was derisively referred to.
You could have voted for the democrat
DeleteHe should've been gone with the S & L scandal. Unfortunately, I think the prick will squeak by.
ReplyDeletethat McCain has lasted this long in politics speaks to the low lifes in the GOP. McCain is no American hero in my book.
DeleteHe was never a "reasonable Republican" overall -- like Mark Kirk, he sometimes voted reasonably on a few specific issues. John McCain only makes sense when we realize that every single action he's taken in Congress is what he thought would benefit him at that moment. In that sense, he's very much like Trump, a narcissistic creature of pure impulse and no consistency.
ReplyDeleteCheck out how he treated the families of POW vets. He does not respect women.
DeleteHe was never a "reasonable Republican" overall
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7:43 - exactly! I recall watching him during some kind of official meeting with govt officials and the families of POW's were there to ask for additional funding or something - I'm going to look it up after I finish my comments here. Bottom line - he THROTTLED a woman with such disrespect and venom i think she may have even been reduced to tears. It was that moment my opinion of John McCain changed forever. His dispicable treatment of her was jaw dropping. His arrogance was a disgrace.
DeleteI question anyone who supports him because his temper is legendary - his disrespect of women is well known and I believe he still finds pleasure in knowing how much damage his "VP" choice caused to the American public years after he lost the election. He's furious with us for denying him that coveted position. It's a disgrace that he's held office for all these years and I can only hope the American public is waking up to the fact that our govt is overrun by corrupt politicians who lived a life of enlightenment on our dime. McCain has to go and he should take the rest of those pompous bastards with him.
There.... I feel better. 😎
McCain bats down third-party Trump challenger talk
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/john-mccain-no-third-party-223320
$cratch has a penchant for hitching her wagon to losers
ReplyDeleteLosers also have a penchant for hooking up with Palin.
DeleteLaw of Attraction - OBEYED!
McCain, losing, it couldn't happen to a more deserving career criminal. Why it took so long would be interesting.
ReplyDeleteHe was a affluenza kiddo and treated special from childhood. He never deserved getting out of his bad self behaving, the Mafia bought him a political career he never deserved. It only got worse over the years. Don't forget Charles Keating, Keating Five crap.
McCain had a life of corruption before he ever heard of Sarah Palin.
Now the corrupt want to keep this crook in the Senate so he can block the investigations that need to be initiated and taken serious.
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DeleteThat famous for being famous daughter of his is no prize either. Wish she would just disappear along with her FAUX buddies.
Tamron Hall on MSNBC just grilled Nina Turner, Bernie Sanders spokeswoman. Tamron Hall is a fantastic interviewer.
ReplyDeleteShe is!
DeleteI can see why Lawrence O'Donnell is attracted to her.
FUCK John Boy-Read Slate>
ReplyDelete"Manafort and Davis didn’t just snooker McCain into trumpeting their client’s cause..
He is a IDIOT!
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/paul_manafort_isn_t_a_gop_retread_he_s_made_a_career_of_reinventing_tyrants.html
OT: In Indiana, starting this July.
ReplyDeletehttps://richarddawkins.net/2016/05/state-mandated-mourning-for-aborted-fetuses/
Let's not forget the Pat Tillman eulogy.
ReplyDeleteAnd the investigation into death by friendly fire. Some things just do not change.
Also McCain's involvement in the land swap of Apache land to mining company Rio Tinto......... http://www.opednews.com/articles/John-McCain-and-Congress-H-by-Carissa-Miller-Apache_Copper_Land-Grab_McCain-John-141210-203.html
Letting infamous fraudster Charles Keating by him vacations and then McCain using his US Senate seat to attack the regulators trying to shut the Keating fraud down?
DeleteThat John McCain!
He's ANOTHER Republican fucker in the U.S. Congress that needs to go! Vote as many of them out of office as you can as they come up for reelection.
DeleteMcCain's hitting the trail is wished by most Americans when it comes to this rat!
Vote NO Arizonians as to his reelection!
He should have done the honorable thing and retired years ago. Time for AGE limits for politicianns. Too many stick around just for the perks. The paycheck is small change for them after years of brbes.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin saved me from voting for McCain.
ReplyDeleteHe will keep his seat.
ReplyDeleteHe only keeps his seat due to corruption and criminal cronies. It is nothing to brag about. It is not surprising when cheats and crooks can keep a seat.
DeleteYou can't hurry Karma. I hope he retires and throws a hooooge dinner, inviting the family that cursed him forever to be the first part of a word association game. I say Mc Cain, you say Palin. Oh the wonderful memories, we'll always have MCCain Feingold, and who can forget "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iraq"?
ReplyDeleteMust me nice for Cindy, she's got ten houses to escape to no matter which he picks post retirement.
The Curse...... it lives!!!!