Hear, hear!!

We will defeat McCain, anyone who is 'concerned' must be insecure in our strong candidates. Don't be blinded by the spin from either side.

WE WILL defeat McCain, no matter how hard some DEMS want to make us think we will lose.

Wow, that's ironical...

Rofl...So much for that argument

What an incisive way to make your point.

The only problem with this is that many voters believe McCain is not a real Republican. Obama and Clinton would destroy McCain the Republican. But they both struggle against McCain the media-created maverick.

it's all that evil hillary's fault. she's ruined the party for a generation, at least.

nicely put!

in November.  If we aren't, it won't matter.

That argument needed to be rebutted in just this way.

Through all this worry worting, including my own, I have once in a while taken the time to notice that McCain with all of his free time and campaigning unattacked by the savage press, still can't seem to beat our troubled candidates by much, if at all.  That says something.  It is amazing.  A lot of really amazing stuff is going on these days.  I also was looking at the counties in PA and the percent of win for each candidate in their own party.  Nobody has said much about it in the media, but McCain only managed to scrape up around 60 to 70 percent of the vote in his own party in most counties, bested by our good friends Huckabee and Paul who were supposed to be dead in the water a while back. In PA, the landscape was inundated with Ron Paul signed from one end to the other.  Not a single sign for McCain could be seen.  

yeah, the 3000 blogging obama supporters swearing they'll never support hillary as the nominee really affected that outcome, didn't they? i keep telling them they're one thousandth of one percent of the US population, but they just don't believe me.

If Democrats play their cards right (i.e. seat one-half of the Florida and Michigan delegates) they will win quite big in November no matter who is nominated.

It's time for the Super Delegates to step up to the plate.

We can thank Jeremiah Wright for this. He destroyed Obama because he had to defend his "reputation." I think Hillary could still win but Obama may have been an easier candidate to run.

Pray, tell us what you and MyDD have done to make it less so.

Go Hil, go

So Hillary give the pubs the White House, like Bill gave them the congress.

Wait a second - did you add up the numbers? The total Democratic support in Nov 07 is 50 and it is 51 now - how is that destruction? Seems fine - why make such inflammatory comments about numbers that aren't changing much. You are looking at the numbers backwards! If anything Republican support has declined. Strong support moves UP from 41 to 45.

A good question that will wait long for an answer.

Which will leave people to speculate on their own.

Hillary Clinton in Jeffersonville, IN, just challenged members of Congress to weigh in on a gas tax:

"I believe it would be important to get every member of Congress on record," she said, per NBC/NJ's MIke Memoli. "Do they stand with the hard-pressed Americans who are trying to pay their gas bills at the gas station or do they once again stand with the oil companies? That's a vote I'm going to try to get, because I want to know where people stand, and I want them to tell us - are they with us or against us when it comes to taking on the oil companies?"

Source: http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/a rchives/2008/05/hrc_challenges.html
Credit: MBNYC

Wow I have been so conditioned by the Obama folk that I fell for it.

Guess GOP are worried about economy and switched to dem or something...

I read the graph as Dems losing support while we are actually gaining as per graph and link.

They just put the dates in the non traditional order.

I can't wait until this turns into a two-way race and the Democratic nominee starts ticking up against McCain in the polls. This man's solution to the healthcare crisis is to end employer-based healthcare and instead push for a 2000 dollar or so tax credit that would cover about a fifth of the average annual per family healthcare expenditure. The best in Republican healthcare since the "personal healthcare savings account idea".

What a joke.

We are all about to see on the national level why McCain performed so poorly in his home state of Arizona in the Republican primary(he only got 47 percent of the vote). This is what happens when your name is on a bill that you say now you won't vote for, and your name is on another piece of legislation that you passed and are now violating. I can't wait to turn the light of truth against this guy.  

I will ignore your post and repeat old arguments with little basis in fact, driven solely by talking points and my own biased opinion.

seriously though, good post, the Republicans are systematically screwed this year, they have a built in disadvantage due to a number of issues that won't be erased by McCain's current image as "Teh Maverick".

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING REPUBLICAN BASE
Societal trends reshaping the American electorate

By Alan I. Abramowitz
Guest Columnist

http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystal ball/article.php?id=AIA2008050101