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Governor Palin in the Midwest
By Dave - Politics DailyByron York on National Review OnlineA former city councilman here in Chillicothe, Rinehart doesn't pretend to love John McCain. After McCain wrapped up the nomination last February, Rinehart, a serious conservative who's also a former local Bush campaign co-chairman, felt what he calls "Carter malaise." He wasn't inclined to take part in the campaign. "My attitude was, I'm going to the polls and that's it - no grassrooting, no nothing." And then McCain picked Palin. "I absolutely loved it," Rinehart tells me. "It was a game-changer for me. It was huge for me as a conservative for some light at ...
Enthusiasm Gap Still Very Real
By Dave - Politics DailyThe Weekly Standard highlights the reception (or lack thereof) that John McCain has been getting in his own party. It seems that conservative Republicans are not at all excited about voting for the man who wanted to be a John Kerry's VP. Can you blame them? From the Standard: A Washington Post/ABC News poll last month found that nearly half of the liberals surveyed are enthusiastic about supporting Barack Obama, while only 13 percent of conservatives are enthusiastic about McCain. (who are these people -ed) More generally, 91 percent of self-identified Obama supporters are "enthusiastic" ...
McCain's Enthusiasm Gap
By David Knowles - Politics DailyPresidential campaigns are won and lost on emotion. The candidate who taps into a sense of camaraderie with voters invariably ends up living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, while the loser laments that the country never really got to know him (or her). Consider our most recent also-rans: John Kerry, Al Gore, Bob Dole, Michael Dukakis. Each of these men failed to forge an emotional connection with voters. Indeed, to varying degrees, each was perceived as stiff or phony in comparison to the person he was running against. In short, they lacked the ability to stir up unalloyed enthusiasm in the ...
McCain as Yosemite Sam?
By Eric Schulzke - Politics DailyThe lack of enthusiasm in the base for the Presumptuous Presumptive continues, though now more increasingly in a tone of wry bemusement than militant outrage. This morning, Mark Steyn -- the right's parodist laureate -- notes that Charles Krauthammer calls McCain the "apostate sheriff." Steyn runs with the image on a dusty Western high noon, but then concludes he can't help but see a gun totin Yosemite Sam instead. The image matches so well, I thought a Sunday Morning cartoon was in order. If McCain is the Sam in this skit, the question is, who's playing the wascally wabbit? ...
Dems Trouncing Repubs in Votes Cast, Cash
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOn Super Tuesday, Democrats continued the trend. They outvoted their Republican counterparts by a huge margin. From Roll Call's Mort Kondracke:...14.6 million Democrats wen to the polls on Tuesday and only 9 million Republicans--indicating a vast enthusiasm gap between the parties. The disparity in voting numbers is something of a turnaround for the parties, according to The New York Times. The 2000 election was the last presidential contest in which neither party fielded an incumbent. Back then, Republicans outvoted Democrats in both Iowa and New Hampshire, and made a huge showing in South ...
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