Senator John McCain, (R-AZ) might be in for the fight of his life to preserve his senate seat. According to the Huffington Post:
PHOENIX, AZ — Rasmussen announced a new poll on Friday showing Senator John McCain may be in trouble at home where a polarized electorate has him facing constant criticism from both the left and the right.
The poll shows McCain tied with former Congressman and current talk radio host J.D. Hayworth in a hypothetical Republican primary. Hayworth, who has become an outspoken local hero among immigration-control activists, lost his House seat to Rep. Harry Mitchell (D) in 2006. Since then, Hayworth has promoted the Tea Parties on his radio show and has spoken at Tea Party events, including the April 15 rally in Phoenix. Hayworth has expressed interest in running but has been tight-lipped on whether or not he intends to actually file as a candidate against McCain.
Rasmussen has McCain at 45% and Hayworth at 43% (4% margin of error). Although McCain’s loudest opponents from the right usually cite immigration as the key issue, Minutmen founder Chris Simcox only reached 4% in the poll. According to the poll, Hayworth is more popular overall among the GOP, especially among the younger GOP sect. McCain fares better with females and moderate Republicans.
McCain is up for reelection in 2010. It was thought at one time that Janet Napolitano was going to challenge him. As Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, that seems unlikely. What is it about McCain that Republicans don’t like? It seems that he is the darling of the moderates and the villan of just about everyone else. It obviously isn’t all about immigration. The minuteman guy sure didn’t grab up a lot of the votes in the poll. Is it just the mood of the country?
I would be somewhat surprised if McCain really lost his seat. He absolutely SHOULD, but I’ll believe that one when I see it. As to what’s wrong with McCain, we’ve been over that too many times to rehash it again. He’s a Bush-Republican, and I think we’re all done with Bush. I will, however, point out the obvious flaw in thinking here. Just because the minuteman gets 4% in the poll, that doesn’t mean 96% of all people desire illegals to get a pass. One issue candidates will never do all that well, no matter what the issue is, but that doesn’t translate into “nobody cares about the issue”.
Would it be fair to say “Very few people prioritize this issue?”
I am not sure we have been over the ‘What’s wrong with McCain?’ question here on antibvbl.
What’s right about McCain is his willingness to deploy troops to Afghanistan. It was entirely immoral of Bush (and now Obama) to not commit resources to an all-out win and allow our soldiers to die because of unwillingness to do politically unpopular things like raise taxes to fund the effort. Now we sit and wait while focus groups help the President decide on the most politically expedient course of action.
Even if my own children were in the military, I couldn’t be more outraged. Or fearful.
McCain has enragaed many conservatives in his State on illegal immigration – a State whose illegal immigrant problem is on the scale of what we’ve lived through here. It is the issue that fuels his opponent.
A McCain loss to Hayworth will be a big, big story in politics. Here’s hoping. A Harry Reid loss would be nice also.
In my ideal fantasy, every incumbent loses.
Emma, it’s true that Obama appears a bit confused and slow on troop deployment, like the unqualified novice that he is, but you should have applied more of this moral outrage to Bush, who so needlessly and recklessly deployed our fighting fotrces first and thought of a justification second. And whose cabinet full of war profiteers cheered him on while he did it.
No argument there, Rick.
Fight to win a just cause, or don’t fight at all. Anything in between is an outrage.
Either the voters of Arizona take it upon themselves to teach Janet Napoleon and Juan McAmnesty a lesson, or they roll over and bite the pillow. The voters has spoken and said “we support Joe Arpaio”, and those in government aren’t listening. It’s obvious they need to be more clear come Nov 2010. Again, I don’t think McAmnesty will lose his seat (Reid is in another, more serious situation), but I would welcome the change. People want change? It doesn’t come from the federal government. People make change.
I must add that ANYTHING that comes from the Huffington Post must be looked at with suspicion, on principle.
I have to agree with Emma about going in to win or stay home. Obama needs to get off the pot and either pull those troops out and bring them home or send in the 40k requested.
I am not sure how Napolitano is going to get taught a lesson, Slow. Hers is not an electible position.
And you base that on what, Slowpoke? It sounds like your own personal politics to me.
I would say the same thing about Fox News.
I generally check things presented as ‘fact’ out with several sources unless it is a post that has very little political impact. (like it snowed today or something along that order)
I wonder who Sarah Palin will endorse.
McCain was one of the few Republicans who voted against the outrageous Medicare drug benefit. He had the guts to not ignore some of the more outrageous things said by Robertson and Falwell. It hurt him in the 2000 primaries. I only wish we had more John McCains.
It broke my heart to see him sell his soul to try to gain the support of the pseudo-conservatives during 2008.
El Guapo, why do you think the medicare drug benefit was awful?
I believe McCain got screwed for sure. Of course he was his own undoing by selecting Palin as his running mate. She immediately disqualified him in the minds of moderates and those other people who were not firmly in the Obama camp.
Well, when he picked Palin, he probably knew about as much about her as the rest of us did. He probably thought she was a genuine conservative, not just a politician posing as a conservative. He should have done better vetting. I think we can all agree on that.
Good question about the Medicare drug benefit. What’s not to like? We (or I should say our children) already won’t be able to afford Medicare before the drug benefit. So what’s yet another entitlement on the backs of the next generation? I’m just one of those people who doesn’t think we should be creating more entitlement programs when it’s already clear we won’t be able to pay for the existing programs. But that’s just me.
Just curious. I think it had to happen because there were seniors that couldn’t pay their rent or get enough to eat because of the horrible cost of drugs. I got to see just how expensive medicine was when my mother’s insurance wasn’t billed when she moved up here. There was a bill for $1600 worth of medicine that was going through the discount in house site.
She was taking a lot of generic and nothing horribly exotic in that batch. She was just on a lot of different rx’s. This is before the medicare plan was passed. She did have rx insurance so we resubmitted it. However, it was surely an eye opener.
Is it Rick that wants to mow down the drug companies? That might be the place to start. They could jolly well afford to give seniors a break so it isn’t piled on the backs of future generations.
For all the complaining going on now, just wait…the Boomers are coming the Boomers are coming…
The Boomers go from 1946-1964. That’s 18 years of us. There are over 78 million of us. We are going to make ‘illegals’ look like a Sunday School picnic.
That is correct, but in 2010, we can fire her by flushing her boss.
El Guapo, thank you for an intelligent and informed response. But I do think “sell his soul” is a bit hard hearted in regard to John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin for a running mate. Considering all that he has survived over 72 years, I can understand why he might have overlooked his own mortality in the heat of a competitive campaign, which is ultimately the only reason America rejected Palin and thus the ticket. I don’t think he realized how incompetent and provincial she was. Honestly I don’t think anyone realized that.
If indeed John McCain’s soul was sold after making that decision, we would not have seen him snatch the microphone back from that woman who, in retrospect, turned out to be a precursor to the ugly rash of race-based hate organizing that is currently threatening the future viability of the GOP as a national party.
As for the potential challenge from J.D. Hayworth, most of the poll respondents don’t realize, I’m sure, that Hayworth is not just a Glenn Beck wanna be radio dramatist, he has actually served in Congress already, quite poorly in fact. He was corrupt and incompetent and he was soundly defeated in a traditionally Republican district because he’d lost the faith of voters in his own party. John McCain will be a U.S. Senator until the day he dies, hopefully a long, long time from now.
Better wait until 2012 to try to flush her boss or you might find the FBI at the door.
Just sort of a creepy day to be having the flush conversation. 11/22/
>>> Senator John McCain may be in trouble
Hallelujah! And I hope the good people of South Carolina have the sense to boot Sen.Graham too!
Can’t stand political cross-dressers.
So you want someone that only 30% of the people feel is acceptable? Seriously, how are you going to elect this person?
McCain is very much a Republican. Let’s look at the history of the party before it was hijacked.
@Moon-howler
Yeah, I totally skipped two years. my bad!
Wishful thinking, Slowpoke? Some advice, dont get too excited over regime change. You might end up disappointed like those of us who thought the Bush days were over.
First the 2000 election where popular vote doesn’t count. Then to re-elect the same person. It made no sense.
Carter only lasted four years, Obama is worse (if that is even conceivable). If we’re still a viable representative republic in four years, my money is on Obama going. Unless, of course, the GOP puts the wrong person in to challenge him (which I’ll grant is not out of the question!)
McCain, 2012!! LoL
Who would you run against Obama, Slowpoke?
Dearest Slowpoke. Please forgive me. The Devil made me do this. The minute I saw it, I had to plant it. Is this what you had in mind?
The funniest part was “from the mind of Keith Olbermann”! I love a good oxymoron…Jumbo Shrimp! The Mind of Keith Olbermann!
May I ask the question again? Who seriously?
I rarely watch Keith Olbermann so I won’t argue with you on that one.
That makes sense. Hate on Olbermann because you don’t agree. Defend the Fox “News” propagandists even though they lie because you do agree.
By the way, I will be attending the Redskins Tea Party protesting the outcome of today’s loss to the f-ing Cowboys. Even if I’m the only one there, I’ll cut in a shot of the Inauguration and hope no one notices.
No one will notice on Faux News, Justin.