If McCain is so hated by Repukes, why is he way ahead in most of the polls and scoring big wins?

[MoonRiver]

If it's the Repuke base alone that hates him, that base must have shrunk to virtually nothing.

I have been wondering about this disconnect with what we see in McCain's wins and poll results, and the spin about how hated he is by the Repuke base.

:shrug:

[TwilightGardener]

1. He's famous, and the other guys are either unlikeable or jokes.

[MoonRiver]

3. Granted. But if one is hated then name recognition should be a negative.

I'm just not getting it.

[pdxmom]

2. The hard right base they are talking about are the Rush Limbaugh, Mark

Levin, Laura Ingraham right wing radio nuts. From what I've read, the Christian right has split between Huckabee and McCain, but I could be wrong. The analysis has been that McCain is pulling the moderates and the independents that lean right. And the RNC is backing McCain strongly.

[MoonRiver]

6. Well, I think the tiny big of good news here

is that the most extreme wackos must be much fewer in number than I thought.

[pdxmom]

8. They certainly haven't had the pull they had in the past. I think where

they miscalculated was that they all were rooting for Fred, and not looking at the fact that he was the laziest campaigner ever to run for office. When Fred fell flat, they were left scrambling, trying to find a "Reagan Republican" (whatever the hell that is). Romney has been reinvented by them to be that person. They've virtually wiped out his previous positions on some of their most precious issues, like abortion.

And it's making them furious that many in the media are now calling talk radio "irrelevant". I love it!

[Buzz Clik]

12. Bingo. Only the hard-core neocon assholes hate McCain.

Old-timey conservatives and others with sentient thoughts don't object to him.

[Occam Bandage]

4. Because everyone else sucks hardcore.

Ghoul was an abortionist cross-dresser, Romney a rich unlikable flip-flopper from Massachusetts, Huckabee an open-borders tax-hiking economic protectionist, and Thompson a bloated corpse.

[RogueTrooper]

5. Have you seen the rest of the field?

\question answered. ;-)

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. Depends on what you mean by "the base."

The *ideological* base on the Democrats' side seems to have favored Kucinich and Edwards very heavily (and not just on DU) but both of them did very poorly. The fact of the matter is that the ideological base of both parties are not necessarily the deciding factor in primary wins.

[denem]

9. The Christian right is split between Romney and Huckabee

and Huck is staying in as long as necessary to keep Romney out, IMO

[Jamastiene]

10. What states has he won?

He's hated in all those states with 3 people and dozens of electoral college votes. That could be the answer.

[mtnsnake]

11. I think it's just the conservative base that hates him. Limbaugh & Hannity are worried to death

because they realize a McCain run for the WH could put a damper on their careers.

[fasttense]

13. Like in the Democratic party, the Washington insiders, who hate McCain,

are out of touch with main stream republic America, they have always been. Rush, O'Rielly, and Ann are now firmly established Washington insiders. Their appeal, or purpose, was never to express and reveal what the average Joe republic felt or thought, but to TELL the average Joe republic what to feel and think. So you have the media Washington insiders saying one thing and the average Joe republic voting another. For some reason, they don't seem able to convince the majority of average Joe republics to vote the way they tell them to, like they have during the last 8 years. I think it's because of the economy.

Our Democratic Washington insiders like Impeachment-is-off-the-table-Pelosi and Give-Telecoms-Amnesty-Harry are also out of touch with main stream Democratic America. However, unlike the republic media Washington insiders, our Air America liberal personalities have not been embraced by the political establishment in Wash DC. Our liberal media personalities, are not Washington Insiders and are more in tune with average Joe Democrats.

[hadrons]

14. Most Repukes are voting for someone else other than McCain ....

the field is split on the anti-McCain vote

[K Gardner]

15. I'm telling you.. his "resurrection" has been a MEDIA production.. they have absolutely frozen

Romeny out of the discussion and coverage, making it seem that no one else is running or has a chance.

Sound familiar??

[fasttense]

16. But then why are Ann, Rush and others spewing hatred of McCain?

Aren't they part of the MEDIA too?

[MoonRiver]

17. Very familiar.

But I do believe there is some serious confusion within the republic party. A good thing, that.