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John McCain Widens Lead Over GOP Challenger J.D. Hayworth
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyArizona Sen. John McCain has widened his lead over J.D. Hayworth, the former congressman and conservative talk show host, who is challenged him for the GOP nomination, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted May 17. McCain now leads Hayworth 52 percent to 40 percent with 2 percent preferring another candidate and 6 percent undecided. The margin of error is 4.5 points. In mid-April, McCain's lead had been 47 percent to 42 percent. Hayworth's problem is that while he is running against McCain from the right, he is not besting him among Republicans who describe themselves as ...
Arizona Politics: Brewer's Stock Up, McCain's Down
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyArizona has two embattled Republicans in Gov. Jan Brewer and Sen. John McCain who are both facing primary challenges, but while one new poll shows Brewer's stock going up after signing a tough law to crack down on illegal immigrants, another found what it called "a Charlie Crist like drop" in McCain's job approval numbers. A Rasmussen Reports poll conducted April 27 said that Brewer had widened her lead over Democrat Terry Goddard, the state attorney general, to 48 percent to 40 percent with 7 percent preferring another choice and 5 percent undecided. In mid-April, before signing the ...
McCain Uses Dracula Ad to Mock Opponent Hayworth
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(April 13) -- Sen. John McCain has staked his claim to honors for weirdest commercial of the campaign season. But he has some competition. The Arizona Republican's latest ad in his primary race against J.D. Hayworth includes the claim that the challenger believes "Dracula is real" -- and uses some footage from the classic Bela Lugosi film to drive home the point. The video also suggests Hayworth thinks the president was born in Kenya and that allowing gay marriage could lead to man-horse nuptials. For good measure, it winds up with clips from "Mars Attacks!" for a shot at Hayworth on national ...
McCain Has 15 Point Lead Over Hayworth in GOP Primary Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyArizona Sen. John McCain is leading his former congressman and conservative radio host J.D. Hayworth by 52 percent to 37 percent with 11 percent undecided in their primary race for the GOP senate nomination, according to a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll conducted March 29-31. That's a more comfortable margin than Rasmussen Reports found in a poll conducted Maqrch 17 where McCain's margin was just 48 percent to 41 percent. In the Research 2000 poll, McCain does better than Hayworth in hypothetical general election match-ups with four Democrats, although in all but one case, both men run ...
Sarah Palin on the Trail: Giddyap, Giddyap!
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyLast we checked on Sarah Palin -- two minutes ago -- she had left behind a political dust storm and a few snakes rattling in the West over the weekend. Strewn all around the crossroads of cowboy America were vintage Palinisms -- "Don't retreat, just reload" -- rabble-rousing one-liners and fervent chants of "Run, Sarah, run!" One glance at the cable news streaming her appearances live and you had to know that she'd probably never need Peggy Lee's "Fever" to heat up the crowds. There was Sarah, lighting up center stage, wearing an all-black, zipped-up leather biker jacket, thigh-hugging skirt ...
Palin to Campaign for McCain in Arizona
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyBy the time she gets to Phoenix, he'll be ... raring to go. Sarah Palin is headed to Arizona on Friday in an effort to rev up the conservative base for Sen. John McCain, the man who brought her to political prominence by naming the then-Alaska governor as his vice presidential running mate in 2008. To get her game face ready, Palin ripped three Arizona Democratic lawmakers: Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick, Harry Mitchell, and Gabrielle Giffords, The Hill newspaper said. "We're going to fire them and send them back to the private sector, which has been shrinking thanks to their destructive ...
McCain's GOP Primary Challenger Trails Him by Just 7 Points
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyConservative talk show host and former congressman J.D. Hayworth, who is mounting a primary campaign from the right against Sen. John McCain in Arizona, trails the former GOP presidential candidate by just 7 points, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted March 17. McCain leads Hayward, 48 percent to 41 percent, with 3 percent preferring another choice and 8 percent undecided. The margin of error is 4 points. Last November, the two men were tied in a hypothetical match-up by Rasmussen. In January, after McCain's former running mate, Sarah Palin, said she would campaign for him, his ...
Mitt to Mac: I'm on Your Side in Arizona Re-Election Campaign
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe rapprochement continues. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who sparred with Sen. John McCain in the hard-fought 2008 Republican presidential campaign, said Tuesday he is endorsing McCain's bid for re-election in Arizona, where he faces a conservative challenger. "For years, I've been an admirer of John McCain. Then, we became competitors. Today, I'm proud to call him my friend," Romney said in a statement reported by Politico. ". . . I believe that it is his core value of courage, faith and honor -- forged in battle and confirmed by a lifetime of service to America -- that make ...
Can Palin Save McCain's Political Life? Should She?
By David Corn - Politics DailyWhen John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate, he did the not-yet-launched Tea Party movement a hefty favor by elevating to national prominence a woman who could lead this disparate band of grassroots conservative activists and give a powerful voice to their protests and passions. ("Death panels!") And how do the Tea Partiers pay back McCain? By trying to send him to the old folk's home. Tea Party types have rushed to support the campaign of former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, who is challenging McCain in Arizona's Republican senatorial primary. Hayworth, who years ago left the House to ...
McCain Challenger J.D. Hayworth Is No Conservative Hero
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyFormer Arizona congressman-turned-talk-radio-host J.D. Hayworth has resigned his gab-festing gig in order to challenge Sen. John McCain in the 2010 Republican primary. (Although he has not officially launched his campaign, Hayworth recently told the AP, "We will formally announce at a later time, but we're moving forward to challenge John McCain.") In these strange political times, such an extraordinary event -- McCain was the GOP presidential nominee just 15 months ago -- seems normal to the point of predictability. So, too, were the unsurprising responses within the political firmament. ...
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