McCain Will Lose to Obama
Phony Polls Pretend McCain Stands a Chance
by James Buchanan
Recently there have been a couple highly dubious polls showing McCain ahead of Obama by a narrow margin. Frankly, I don’t believe McCain is ahead of Obama for one second. McCain “won” the Republican nomination with some help from Diebold, a weak field of competitors, an irrational fear of Mormons and an unbelievably bad campaign run by Kent Snyder for Ron Paul.
McCain is such a horrible candidate for Republicans, that at least half of all conservatives will refuse to vote for him in the general election. Most conservatives see McCain as a crazy, arrogant, liberal traitor. Meanwhile, liberals are going to vote for the most liberal candidate, which would be Obama.
During the fourth quarter of 2007, McCain raised a total of about ten million —and he needed matching funds to do that. (Some people have pointed out that McCain may be “locked in” to matching funds now, greatly limiting how much he can raise.) Ron Paul raised almost 20 million in the fourth quarter without matching funds. Among the Republicans, only Ron Paul had the strong financial grass roots support to compete with Obama.
McCain was seen as a pro-Amnesty lunatic, who stood no chance of winning so few people were donating to him. Both Obama and Hillary had raised close to $90 million by January. Obama raised a record one-month total of $55 million in February. McCain is practically a homeless guy in comparison. (more…)