According to a new Rasmussen poll, 41% of Americans consider themselves Democrats and 32% consider themselves Republicans. These numbers are important because candidates typically get something like 90% of the votes of people who identify with their party. By way of contrast, in 2004 on election day, Democrats led by just under 2%. In 2006 it was 6%. A gap of 9% might translate into 3% more votes for the Democrats nationally than in 2006, which was a good year for them. But these numbers are not carved in stone. They could change by election day.
Oldtimer said:More GW Legacy......
According to a new Rasmussen poll, 41% of Americans consider themselves Democrats and 32% consider themselves Republicans. These numbers are important because candidates typically get something like 90% of the votes of people who identify with their party. By way of contrast, in 2004 on election day, Democrats led by just under 2%. In 2006 it was 6%. A gap of 9% might translate into 3% more votes for the Democrats nationally than in 2006, which was a good year for them. But these numbers are not carved in stone. They could change by election day.
They'd vote just like you, ff. Like you, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. :lol:fff said:Now that the Supreme Court has ruled DC residents have the Constitutional right to bear arms, it seems only fair that they also have the right to vote. Which do you think they'll choose: Dem or Republican? :lol:
CattleArmy said:Anyone else wonder if McCain is just to old to be president? Not a republican or democrat thing just totally about age?
Twenty-five percent (25%) of Montana voters say McCain is too old to be President
There is partisanship in views of McCain’s age; just 13 percent of Republicans see it as a concern, compared with 40 percent of Democrats. But it’s 24 percent among independents, the quintessential swing voters in national elections. And it’s 27 percent among seniors, who may be said to have a unique perspective on what 71 is like. April Gallup poll
Oldtimer said:Even the military has a mandatory retirement age of 62 for general officers-- main reason- the issue of age-related performance. ....
loomixguy said:Oldtimer said:Even the military has a mandatory retirement age of 62 for general officers-- main reason- the issue of age-related performance. ....
Age related performance?? VERY BELIEVEABLE in Old Whiner's case! :lol: :lol:![]()
Considering McCain's temper, the physical scars and emotional trauma from his POW years, IMO, that's not the guy we need making important decisions for this country.
Larrry said:Considering McCain's temper, the physical scars and emotional trauma from his POW years, IMO, that's not the guy we need making important decisions for this country.
McCain's temper, that is a myth he just has the balls to tell ir like it is in no mincing of words.
physical scars, just what the hell is that have to do with anything.
trauma, that can be a good thing. After seeing some of the worst things that could very well make him more cautious in his decisions.
But we already know you had your mind made up, you are just trying to mold McCain around your decision to not vote for him.
AP Attacks McCain's Temper With Edited F-words
By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
February 16, 2008 - 20:50 ET
Media watchers have been wondering how long it will take press representatives to start attacking John McCain now that he's become almost the certain Republican nominee for president.
On February 16, the wait ended, as the Associated Press went on a literally vulgar tirade about the Arizona senator's temper that would make Madonna blush.
Almost.
As reported Saturday (emphasis added throughout, h/t NBer DaBird, readers are warned about voluminous edited vulgarity):
Temper, temper. Republican John McCain is known for his. He's been dubbed "Senator Hothead" by more than one publication, but he's also had some success extracting his hatchet from several foreheads.
Even his Republican Senate colleagues are not spared his sharp tongue.
"F--- you," he shouted at Texas Sen. John Cornyn last year.
"Only an a------ would put together a budget like this," he told the former Budget Committee chairman, Sen. Pete Domenici, in 1999.
"I'm calling you a f------ jerk!" he once retorted to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.
With Cornyn, he smoothed things over quickly. The two argued during a meeting on immigration legislation; Cornyn complained that McCain seemed to parachute in during the final stages of negotiations. "F--- you. I know more about this than anyone else in the room," McCain reportedly shouted.
Hmmm. Three edited f-words in the first six paragraphs. Could that be a wire service record?
Sadly, all that vulgarity was a set-up to dissuade voters from considering McCain:
The political landscape in Arizona, McCain's home state, is littered with those who have incurred his wrath. Former Gov. Jane Hull pretended to hold a telephone receiver away from her ear to demonstrate a typical outburst from McCain in a 1999 interview with The New York Times.
McCain has even blown up at volunteers and, on occasion, the average Joe.
He often pokes fun at his reputation: "Thanks for the question, you little jerk," he said last year to a New Hampshire high school student wondering if McCain, at 71, was too old to be president.
Other times, his ire is all too real. This has prompted questions about whether his temperament is suited to the office of commander-in-chief or whether it might handicap him in a presidential campaign against either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton, who are not known for such outbursts.
"I decided I didn't want this guy anywhere near a trigger," Domenici told Newsweek in 2000.
Hillary Clinton is not known for such outbursts? Really? That's not what George Stephanopoulos and Dee Dee Myers have said.
In fact, according to multiple former colleagues of the current junior senator from New York, she has a mouth that would make an AP writer blush.
Almost.
former Sen. Bob Smith, R-N.H., who opined that McCain's rage quotient "would place this country at risk in international affairs, and the world perhaps in danger."
It was early 1992, and the occasion was an informal gathering of a select committee investigating lingering issues about Vietnam War prisoners and those missing in action, most notably whether any American servicemen were still being held by the Vietnamese. It is unclear precisely what issue set off McCain that day. But at some point, he mocked Grassley to his face and used a profanity to describe him. Grassley stood and, according to two participants at the meeting, told McCain, "I don't have to take this. I think you should apologize."
McCain refused and stood to face Grassley. "There was some shouting and shoving between them, but no punches," recalls a spectator, who said that Nebraska Democrat Bob Kerrey helped break up the altercation.
Grassley said recently that "it was a very long period of time" before he and McCain spoke to each other again, though he declined, through a spokesman, to discuss the specifics of the incident.
Since the beginning of McCain's public life, the many witnesses to his temper have had strikingly different reactions to it. Some depict McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee for president, as an erratic hothead incapable of staying cool in the face of what he views as either disloyalty to him or irrational opposition to his ideas. Others praise a firebrand who is resolute against the forces of greed and gutlessness.
Reagan was senile before he took officefff said:........Reagan was probably senile by the time he left office...............
fff said:I think McCain's age is a problem. It's a difficult job and every president ages quickly in it. Reagan was probably senile by the time he left office. Considering McCain's temper, the physical scars and emotional trauma from his POW years, IMO, that's not the guy we need making important decisions for this country.
Pretty much, yes.Sandhusker said:fff said:I think McCain's age is a problem. It's a difficult job and every president ages quickly in it. Reagan was probably senile by the time he left office. Considering McCain's temper, the physical scars and emotional trauma from his POW years, IMO, that's not the guy we need making important decisions for this country.
Obama is a better choice, though? Puleeeeeze.
Goodpasture said:Pretty much, yes.Sandhusker said:fff said:I think McCain's age is a problem. It's a difficult job and every president ages quickly in it. Reagan was probably senile by the time he left office. Considering McCain's temper, the physical scars and emotional trauma from his POW years, IMO, that's not the guy we need making important decisions for this country.
Obama is a better choice, though? Puleeeeeze.
fff said:I think McCain's age is a problem. It's a difficult job and every president ages quickly in it. Reagan was probably senile by the time he left office. Considering McCain's temper, the physical scars and emotional trauma from his POW years, IMO, that's not the guy we need making important decisions for this country.
fff said:Considering McCain's temper, the physical scars and emotional trauma from his POW years, IMO, that's not the guy we need making important decisions for this country.