OT: McCain poll

[ProSense]

McCain has the worst position on Iraq, but wins every national against every Democrat. Yet he can't win a straw poll in his home state against Duncan Hunter.

Longshot Hunter Touts Win in Arizona Straw Poll, as McCain Runs Fourth

By Rachel Kapochunas | 2:08 PM; Jan. 16, 2007 | Email This Article

It is hard to portray California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter as anything but an underdog as he explores a bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

Though the recent past chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is well known in national security circles, he is known to few voters outside his San Diego area 52nd District. He has never run statewide in populous California, much less cut a high national profile.

But his status as a longshot apparently hasn’t eroded Hunter’s confidence — nor stopped him from comparing himself to the potential heavyweights in the GOP field.

Just days after Hunter filed paperwork to establish an exploratory committee Jan. 12, his campaign released results of a straw poll in Arizona’s most populous county, in which he outran a group of likely and possible GOP hopefuls — including homestate Republican Sen. John McCain, regarded by some as the current front-runner for the Republican nomination.

The poll was taken at the Jan. 13 annual meeting of elected precinct committeemen of the Arizona Republican Party in Maricopa County, which includes the metropolis of Phoenix and is home to roughly 60 percent of Arizona’s population.

A total of 458 party officials voted for their preferred Republican candidates for president — and Hunter came out on top with 96 votes. Taking second and third place were former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 82 votes and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia, who received 53 votes.

McCain ran fourth with 50 votes.

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Edited statement to make sense.

[beachmom]

1. Right wingers hate McCain. They absolutely do not trust him.

But I don't know how all the Republican primary voters will vote; for example, he may be popular in NH. But, yeah, like Hillary, just because the media has him on top doesn't mean he'll end up on top.

[rox63]

2. Oh boy - McCain wants "dialogue" with Dobson

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jan/16/mccain_i_want_a_dialogue_with_dobson

[saltpoint]

3. My crystal ball reveals that Senator McCain will drop out of

the race for the presidency just before the Iowa caucus in January, 2008, not only because polls will show him getting his war-mongering hindend whupped by 2, 3 or 4 other GOP goons, but also because he will have by then signed the dotted line on a contract with a major TV studio to play Pa Cartwright in the remake/revival series of BONANZA.

It's a perfect niche for McCain. He gets to play out-west cowboy authoritarian with none of the political claptrap.

[MBS]

4. trust a veteran of AZ politics(and former constituent of UGGH Shadegg)

the AZ republicans are way out there in wingnut land