McCain Has a Very Bad Night
Wed, 05/07/2008 - 10:30am
John McCain is the presumptive nominee and has been for long enough that the remaining Republican primaries don't matter. That doesn't mean that failing to garner 80 percent of the vote in those remaining primaries isn't really embarrassing, or that unreasonably strong showings by Huckabee, Romney and Paul don't imply serious problems for McCain with the Republican base.
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Meme Numero Uno
By Patrick M McLeod
Wed, 05/07/2008 - 12:16pm
Given that you couldn't watch any of the cable news networks over the last two weeks without hearing about the racial divide or the rural divide or the blue collar divide or the education divide, I think it's about time that the talking heads start looking at McCain's numbers.
I don't expect they will, but after a couple of days of tacking the various angles of "the race is over" that they're running with today, maybe one or two might get desperate enough for some sensationalizing politics that they'd look at McCain's numbers since he's been the presumptive nominee:
Mississippi-79%
Pennsylvania-73%
Indiana-77%
North Carolina-74%
In those same contests, Huckabee + Paul account for between 17% to 27% of the Republican vote.