Comments on: John McCain Struggles to Assemble a Winning Coalition

By: Mike Harmon

Mike Harmon — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:07:53 +0000

I’ve been reading along for a while now. I just wanted to drop you a comment to say keep up the good work.

By: Hubert Edgar

Hubert Edgar — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:45:22 +0000

Amen to that, brother! Conservative Christian does not any longer equal conservative Republican.

I think a problem McCain is facing with the Religious Right is his support of stem cell research. Many pro-life voters consider stem cell destruction to be an abortion.

While I’m voting Obama, I think McCain is the best choice the Republicans have and I might have been tempted to vote for him if he had kept more of his centralist doctrine.

I, too, would like to know if Republican apathy is toward the party generally or McCain specifically. Here in Minnesota, Republican Coleman, Senate, is getting strong backing.

It’s interesting in a swing state like mine that, this close to the election there are very, very few political yard signs, only two within several blocks of my home. Both of those are for Obama. There are a lot, emphasize Lot, of anti-Iraq war yard signs all over our neighborhood.

By: Peg

Peg — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:25:29 +0000

I had lunch this week at a round table of 8 people - 3 of them die-hard Republicans, one that I know for sure did not give his usual $10,000 donation to the GOP this year. They have sort of given up and really believe that Obama will be the next president. They don't like him or trust him but what I found to be amazing is their complete resignation to his presidency. One, the only female, is voting for Obama because she is afraid that McCain will put in a supreme court judge that will over-turn Roe v. Wade. I was amazed at their complete lack of faith in McCain. I wonder how many other Republicans feel the same way. Is the apathy towards their party that has seen its "day" or is it against McCain. Or both.

Great article.

Oh, yes. Dick Morris. Of course he had to go over to the Republicans. They need a new Lee Atwater and Morris and Rove will be as malicious and as dirty as Atwater was... maybe worse. I read that Atwater made a deathbed conversion.
I have no such hope for these two _________ - you fill in the name.