McCain News
Another daily update with a spattering of McCain news.
Of course, as we the case yesterday, McCain has to live in the shadow of SpitzerGate. As always, Malkin has great updates for your reading pleasure. Spitzer finds himself out of a job and with very few friends. His is a simple case of utter abuse of power (in the way he publicly threatened people without ever proving the charges). Obviously the headiness of such unbridled power led him to believe that he was invulnerable. Thankfully, there is still the rule of law.
Astute readers of all things political will remember there’s a curious question concerning McCain’s eligibility to be president. It has to do with clause in the constitution that the President must be a “natural-born citizen.” Now, there’s no denying that McCain is a true citizen of the US. But the question is simply, does he meet the “natural-born” test? The potential problem is that he was born in the Panama Canal area while his father was stationed there. The matter will be given some court time soon and we’ll be anxious to see the outcome. Prediction: despite our dislike and distrust of McCain, he qualifies as a natural-born citizen and the courts will so find.
This interesting report says that anti-war voters trust McCain more. Seems to defy what we would expect. Noteworthy content:
In a New York Times/CBS News (NYT/CBS) poll, 58% said the U.S. should never have attacked Iraq. Yet again McCain gets the highest score on “making the right decisions on Iraq”; 58% are confident about McCain (27% “very” confident), 57% about Obama (only 20% “very” confident), and 50% about Clinton. Among the crucial independent voters, McCain gets 62% confidence, while Obama gets only 54% and Clinton 51%. Though 83% of Democrats say the war was wrong, a whopping 42% are confident McCain will make the right decisions on the war, while 21% of Democrats have no confidence in Obama and the same number no confidence in Clinton.
How to explain these surprising numbers? Part of the explanation lies in the changing view of the war. Over the last year, the number who say the war is going well jumped from 30% to 48% in the LAT/B poll. The NYT/CBS poll records a similar jump since last June, from 22% to 43%. In the WP/ABC poll, the number who see “significant progress” jumped from 31% to 43% in just the last three months. That increase tracks very closely with the growing political fortunes of McCain, who was all but counted out last summer.
What this reiterates to us is that this is where McCain is strong. His fortunes, as he has expressed, rise and fall on the Iraq war. Where he is dreadfully weak and vulnerable, is in the utter lack of support among true conservatives in the Republican party. We will believe they simply won’t get out and vote for McCain in the fall, and the steamroller Obama will prevail due to huge support among his base.
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