Re: The McCain polling surge, Gallup Polling Guru Frank Newport declared the Arizona Senator, “a very solid number 3″ (behind Giuliani and Thompson) on his USA Today blog yesterday, and notes that he is “within 4 points of Thompson” in their polling (Romney fans may want to avoid this entry due to his analysis of Mitt’s numbers.)
McCain’s polling resurgence has come with the reports from Iraq that The Surge has been effective in quelling the violence in many of the nation’s most war-weary areas.
Let’s face it-McCain was right on Iraq, and was from the beginning of the conflict. The Senator is now using his foresight on the campaign trail to make the case that he is the most qualified Republican candidate to be Commander-in-Chief.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:39 am
You had to ruin a good post by putting up Lindsey Graham’s mug.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:46 am
September 18th, 2007 at 10:47 am
dude! pro mccain videos on the main page of r408? I guess if you live long enough you’ll see everything…
September 18th, 2007 at 10:54 am
“Re: The McCain polling surge, Gallup Polling Guru Frank Newport declares the Arizona Senator, “a very solid number 3?
can we get that posted under it’s own separate post?
September 18th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Romney flirting with second tier numbers….
Rudy Giuliani 30
Fred Thompson 22
John McCain 18
Mitt Romney 7
Paul/Huckabee 4
September 18th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Here is a great article on the situation in Iraq. Awesome!
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001517.html
McCain is my man on the Iraq situation. We need him to continue in this
campaign as he is our greatest advocate on this issue. But sorry, Sampo,
he is not the right man to lead our country at this time.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Could someone please post the new Gallup poll as a main post?
Romney at 7, and his RCP average is under 10. Hasn’t been that low in months. So much for Ames.
Go Rudy!!!
September 18th, 2007 at 11:32 am
And oh yeah, Mitt’s sinking in New Hampshire too!
National:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/republican_presidential_nomination-192.html
New Hampshire:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/nh/new_hampshire_republican_primary-193.html
September 18th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Something is wrong with the #s on Mitt.
If he’s really that high up in IA, NH, MI, NV, and even in states like FL and CA polls show him at least breaking 10%, there’s virtually no way he can be as low natioanlly as Gallup has him. It would mean outside of those early states he has practically no support whatsoever.
I think right now the race is settling into Rudy and Fred and national leaders with McCain gaining because of Iraq.
I still expect Fred to be the runaway national leader fairly soon and grow closer to Mitt in IA and NH.
October, with the 3rd quarter fundraising and 3 debates in 12 days could shake everything up, though.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Well part one was a homerun, we see if they can follow-up by focusing on Ethic Reform which was part two of their plan according to the memo. McCain should call on Hillary to fire Howard Ikies (SP?) for how he run A.C.T which just go the biggest fine in FCC history durning with Campign Finennce Laws.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
I really don’t think McCain can pull it off for 2008. Q3 numbers have to be high for McCain. I do have to face the facts though, the polls are very jacked up nationally right now so Newport saying that McCain is in a solid 3rd place is silly! No one is solid right now, especially McCain! Everyone is playing a guessing game nationally since Fred Thompson rolled into town.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
jrcutler, the fact that McCain numbers have increased at the same time that Thompson’s numbers shot up makes it more impressive
not less.