Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that our media isn’t talking about McSame’s inability to seal the deal with a significant number republican voters in the republican presidential primaries?
For instance, last night in Indiana:
McCain 317,837 77%
Huckabee 41,018 10%
Paul 31,481 8%
Romney 19,480 5%
That’s 23% of the voters casting their ballot for someone else.
Then there’s North Carolina:
McCain 381,138 73%
Huckabee 62,917 12%
Paul 40,275 8%
No Preference 20,305 4%
“No preference” did quite nicely, especially since they didn’t spend any money.
And finally, of recent presidential primaries, there’s Pennsylvania:
McCain 587,210 73%
Paul 128,483 16%
Huckabee 91,430 11%
Wow. Over 200,000 republican primary voters in Pennsylvania didn’t vote for McSame. What’s he going to have to do to get their votes?
Tweety and the other cable network talking heads haven’t brought this up, have they? I wonder. It must not fit their selected narrative.
It’s going to be a long slog to November.
What compels a person to get out and vote for Paul or Huckabee or even Romney at this point? Other than dislike of McCain, I mean…
these aren’t even percentages that our statewide Dems win against minor competition (low to mid 80s)*.
Faring in the mid-70s is not entirely good and some of those people probably won’t vote for President in November.
(* – one of my more amusing moments in 2006 involved batting around the Talent claim of “McCaskill only got 80% in her primary, so she’s doomed”.. turns out that’s not all that unusual)
But at this point, the GOP competition should be faring as well as Daniel Carroll will fare in August.
Mike, you have a serious problem. Our betters on cable television and in our better daily newspapers “know” the Democrats have a serious problem in unifying the party.
However, there is no problem in God’s Own Party. Every Republican is happy with McCain. Why look at how well he is doing in the polls and he has no scary black pastor in his past? Our betters are only concerned about scary black pastors. White pastors don’t count.
I’m gonna guess McCain won’t get a majority of overall Republican primary votes, despite being virtually unopposed from March on.