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A poll taken in the first week of May suggests that John McCain would not only lose to either Senators Obama or Clinton if the elections were held today, but anyone else who ran against him. In a list of over one-hundred hypothetical opponents, all of them faired better than the senator from Arizona.

Against "Indiana Jones" star, Harrison Ford, Senator McCain would lose 82% to 8%. Harrison’s wife, Callista Flockhart, would beat McCain 55% to 45%, and Randy Jackson (of “American Idol” fame), would trounce the war hero, 93% to 7%. Dead politicians also seemed to have the upper hand, with Warren Harding, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Dewey and Richard Nixon each coming out ahead of McCain by at least twenty points.

“This is the biggest problem for McCain,” said one Republican strategist. “The American people believe that anyone else in the entire world -- living or dead -- would make a better president. How do you campaign against that? You can’t go negative against civilization.”

McCain responded with his usual cavalier attitude. “Samuel Goldwyn said, ‘Pay no attention to the critics; don’t even ignore them.’ That’s how I feel about polls. Opinions change and we have a long road ahead of us before the elections.”

That “long road” would take an even longer and stranger detour if McCain were to run against convicted criminals. Ted Kaczynski, the “Unabomber,” for instance, would win by nine points, Doctor “Death” Kevorkian by fifteen percent, and the Menendez brothers would each receive 60% of the vote to McCain’s 40%.

The pollsters also included unknown variables. When running against “To Be Determined,” McCain lost by sixteen points. “Abstain” beat him 73% to 27%.

Cartoon characters performed just as well. Daffy Duck, Scooby Doo and Buzz Lightyear would each beat McCain by substantial margins. And Mickey Mouse would completely sweep the floor with the septuagenarian, winning 100% of the votes to McCain’s 0%.

The poll has a margin of error of +/-2 percentage points.

TheRepublicant.org
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42 responses // McCain beatable by anyone, everyone

  • http://www.thingsyoungerthanmccain.com/
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    An amusing blog about things in our culture that are younger than old man McCain.
    benjaminV
  • Obama vs. McCain on the basketball court! ;-)
    Wessagusset_Oracle
  • LOL @ the cobb salad being younger than McCain
    keeshii768
  • If it's Obama vs. McCain, I'm taking bets on McCain right now. Email me with your paypal account. Obama has no chance.
    JohnA
  • Why do you say that JohnA? Explain what you mean.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • I have trouble believing after calling Hillary supporters "uneducated" and "racist" for months that they will care to unite behind Obama. I don't see any states he picks on the electoral college map. Historically far left candidates lose, moderates win, Obama is far left. He drops two states at least from 2004.
    JohnA
  • http://www.gallup.com/poll/election2008.aspx
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    i think johna is right unless he has a conservative democrat to balance his ticket i do not see obama winning the moderates which he needs to win the election . the latest gallup only has obama up by 3 points thats generally the margin of error. i think it will be a close race but i wouldnt hand obama the keys to the white house just yet.
    sephig
  • JohnA & JAN for GORE have been attacking OBAMA for so long it is obvious that they are against him for some reason. WHO cares? I say OBAMA stands the best chance of anyone to win the whole thing.

    He is so great he turns his (negatives) into positives over and over again. Obama is a good fighter.


    goolkasian
  • goolkaisian: I was not in this thread so don't understand why you are baiting and attacking me with that comment. I am also entitled to my opinion about any candidate. And if you have been reading, I don't support ANY of them, even though you have written nothing substantial here to say why you support anyone. Also, supporting John Edwards as well is not attacking anyone else, and YOU have never been attacked by me. If you can't take criticism of a candidate then that is your problem, not mine.

    As for this thread, polls mean nothing regardless of who is said to be first. Polls in 2000 stated Bush would beat Al Gore in the popular vote and we know how that turned out. Unfortunately, there is no way to predict what will happen between now and November. But I will say this, Clinton I think stayed in to prove a point... that those states who voted for her in the numbers they did may not go for Obama in November. She may be wrong as well, as I stated the electorate is fickle and anything can happen between now and November. She may also be right, and that that is something that must also be considered.

    Perhaps you then should look at things from more of a subjective point of view to avoid looking as though you have absolutely no knowledge of how this system works. As far as I am concerned, hacking voting machines will also be going on... so as I stated, anything can happen and bringing out those facts is not attacking any candidate, it is stating an opinion. I suggest you learn the difference.
    JanforGore
  • goolkasion, the only arguement you've made for Obama is that I'm an uneducated racist if I don't support him. So California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, all those states are full of uneducated racists? Good luck with that in November.
    JohnA
  • Look its grand papi.
    stone246
  • Okay John, Tell us exactly what makes Obama far left? There is nothing I see that he has done or said that indicates that. Did you just decide to call him that, or do you have a reason?
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Tell me, who is going to vote for a person that calls his wife a trollop and a c--t? Fine specimen of a man that behaves that way in my opinion.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Sadly, there are still many ways McCain could win. We all thought Bush couldn't do it...but hey now.
    Greg_Bunker
  • Obama is hardly liberal enough...

    Politically he is moderate and reconciliatory
    jade_azul16
  • Whoa, stop it. You all are right. Obama is not going to win and neither is Clinton. This is all a game. Why are they the only ones from the democratic party running. You want to know why, because our government has set these two people up. This is a country where they play alot of games with their people. Now you and I both know that McClain is going to win and the VP that he selects will be someone that is in the Bush's pocket. If you think that the Bush's are not going to run this country for the next 4-8 years you are really being fooled.

    You heard me!
    cheche_201
  • JohnA I have a prediction (make sure you print this out so you can see I was right) Obama will defeat John McCain in a landslide. First Obama is left but not far left. Second, it's already been shown that moderate candidates will vote for him. Third, Republicans will stay away from the pole in drove because many feel that McCain is too moderate(!)
    Fourth, the vast majority of Americans understand that McCain is Bush-lite, and NONE of us need four more years of that crap. Finally, even is by some odd coincidence (or cheating) McCain does win, he will be faced with a veto proof majority of democrats in both houses of Congress who will not put up with ANY BS from him.
    Further, the entire Republican party at the federal, state and local level is heading for a total wipe out in 09 due mainly to their lemming like loyalty to the most incompetent, stupidest, corrupt and dishonest president in the history of the United States. I'll be icing the beer down on the 11/3 and partying on 11/4 when our eight years of national disgrace comes to an end.
    Mark701
  • What is going to happen to McCain when people start talking about his cooperation with the Vietnamese? He didn't stick to his name rank and serial number. According to "him" he told them the name of his ship, how many planes were on it, where it was, and where to find the rescue boats. Look it up it is out there ready to be told again. Hero? Howdy Doody could beat him in an election.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Has anyone noticed that the democrats have picked up 3 seats in congress over the last couple of weeks in very republican districts. JohnA loves to make his bold predictions. That's his right. He's been predicting that Obama is "toast" for the last month or so. And we all see how that's turned out.

    The thing I fear most is over confidence. I think McCain will put up a good fight. But he has problems. He'll want to move to the middle for the general, but he's got issues with the far right of the party and he can't alienate Rush, Mitt, Hagee, Parsley and all those people on the far right he's worked so hard to court over the last couple of weeks. So, what's he going to do? He's stuck. And he's got the weight of the Bush administration slung around his neck.

    Meanwhile Obama has defeated the best brand name in the party by competing hard in almost every state. So he's built a ground game already. And what's more he won't need to pivot his position at all. He beat Clinton on change when she ran on experience. He'll face the same thing in McCain, only with much greater policy contrast. Issues where Obama is on the side of the majority of Americans by the way (war, economy, torture, tax cuts for the rich, health care, education, climate change).

    So JohnA can make his bold predictions. Good for him...he is a brave soul given his track record. I'm going to optimistically wait and see.
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    krag2112
  • Mark, what happened to that 'veto proof majority' in Congress since 2006 when Democrats supposedly "won" and were going to end this war? I don't like being lied to or used by any party.
    JanforGore
  • Republicans are a cancer on America.
    FallenMorgan
  • Um...they didn't get a veto proof majority. Far from it. 49-51 is barely a majority at all and then throw Lieberman into the mix and consider Sen. Tim Johnson's stroke removing another vote from the table. 233 to 202 in the house is better, but still not veto proof. Who lied to you? Those are the numbers. Jan, you put a lot of pressure on the elected officials to only vote their conscience. Which you should. But we the voters didn't really provide them much room to work with. We didn't give them a veto proof majority on either side of congress. So I think we should take some of the blame as well...no?
    krag2112
  • yes, always an excuse.
    JanforGore
  • Interesting that you read my suggestion that we all take some responsibility for who we voted into congress as an excuse. I guess it's always easier to blame someone else.
    krag2112
  • McCain might try to fight the good fight but he is confused as to what it is. Those of us that are actually Democrats need to support Obama and give him a majority to work with. Now is not the time to sit on your hands, or your wallet. Support the Senate and House candidates in your district.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • McCain will win the general election only if the perfect storm happens, Bush catches/kills Bin Laden, Obama is caught with an under aged, homosexual, Muslim midget prostitute on his Yacht and diebold comes through in the pinch again and wipes all those worthless votes away, you know the colored votes?
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    rabidlemur
  • I'd trust Obama with this country before McCain. He's already associated himself with Bush so there's no secret to what he plans on doing.

    You know they'll try to cheat(again) and the media will cover it up by saying "Elderly White Voters Turn up In Droves to Vote For McCain" when the REAL story will be "Blackwater Security Bars Black People From Polls In N.O." or "Diebold Machines Malfunctions, Millions of Votes Lost(or Changed)".

    These guys aren't going to give up this power so easily, they have some sort of trick up thier sleeves...
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    lifestudentno83
  • He has the most liberal voting record in the Senate by every rating. That's what makes him far left.
    JohnA
  • "Has anyone noticed that the democrats have picked up 3 seats in congress over the last couple of weeks in very republican districts."

    Yes, I did notice that, I live in one of them, Mississippi 1st. The Republicans did their best to tie Travis Childers to Obama. He came out publically stating he was a conservative, he didn't know Obama, had never met Obama, and he didn't support Obama. I was even told that as a super delegate he has pledged to support Hillary.
    JohnA
  • You mention this a lot JohnA...who are you citing? The National Review? Funny how no matter who the nominee is, they adjust their methodology for that person come out as "most liberal". The Poole-Rosenthal system, which has become widely used and cited among political scientists has him ranked as tied for 10th most liberal with Biden for 2007. But in the end if "most liberal" means "least like Bush" I think the American people will know how to vote.

    http://voteview.com/sen110.htm
    krag2112
  • yes! i love the sound of that!
    cristinaramos
  • Yeah JohnA I remember you talking about how Childers was going to lose because the republicans were working so hard to tie him to Obama...another bold prediction that didn't come to pass.

    Did HE tell you as a superdelegate he would support Hillary? Did he say that in the press? I guess we'll see what he does.
    krag2112
  • I said he could lose if the Republicans successfully tied him to Obama. They weren't successful, because Childers made his public statements distancing himself as far from Obama as humanly possible. Campaign worker and friend told me the super delegate thing, I'm sure I'm not the only one.
    JohnA
  • Oh...okay. He still won, but only because he distanced himself enough. Not because linking him to Obama didn't harm him with the voters as much as you and the republicans thought it would. Not because voters are smart enough to look around and see what a mess republicans have made of things. Keep telling yourself that.

    And to be clear...in all the "distancing" he did, he never came out publicly and said that as a superdelegate he would support Clinton? He just told your friend to spread the word? Okay John...I think we understand. Like I said...I guess we'll see what he does.
    krag2112
  • I think Ralph Nadar could even win the election over McCain. If you are an American who believes in the core values of this country(liberty, justice, freedom, peace, honor,and a chance at the "American Dream"), I can't see any logical reason in voting for McCain and his puppet regime.
    realitybytes
  • “McCain will make Cheney look like Gandhi.”
    -Pat Buchanan
    celestialceiling
  • Well, the headline of this article gave me a moment of unbridled hope -- until I read who they were voting for, instead of McCain -- Callista Flockhart??? Daffy Duck?????

    Puh-leeeeze.
    shelchak
  • Here's my 2 cents, that's about all an opinion is worth these days anyway.

    All of y'all are nuts! I doesn't really matter who wins the Presidential election, we're all gonna lose in the end.

    It won't be a landslide one way or the other. There won't be a veto-proof Congress. None of the candidates is gonna get us out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Kuwait, Germany, Italy, Japan...this list seems endless and it keeps growing. And none of them will keep us out of Iran.

    Which one of them is courageous enough to recognize the role our blind support of Israel has on the whole situation? People of the world hate the US because of our policies and actions, not because of our democracy.

    There is a much higher percentage of our population in jail than in any other country in the world. And we're the shining example of freedom? Just who's freedom is that? The freedom of the religious right to jail anyone who doesn't agree with them? The freedom of the liberal left to rehabilitate anyone who doesn't agree with them?

    I'm voting for Nobody, and I don't mean I'm not going to vote. It's time for me to stop supporting "the lesser of two evils". If there's no candidate I like, no matter the party affiliation, I'll leave that box on the ballot empty.

    It doesn't count if you don't vote. It does count if you vote for nobody! Large counts of under-votes can do a great deal to change the way this country is run.
    petebardo
  • god help us all if mccain is elected.
    riverdeer