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Partly thanks to an increasingly likable image, the Republican presidential candidate has pulled even with the two Democrats still brawling for their party's nomination, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo news poll released Thursday. Just five months ago â;; before either party had winnowed its field â;; the survey showed people preferred sending an unnamed Democrat over a Republican to the White House by 13 percentage points.

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  engineer1 year, 8 months ago
  
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  This is extremely dangerous!! McCain could win and finish what the present administration started.
  
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    simonsez1 year, 8 months ago
    
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    You're getting worried, Engineer.
    Your candidates feet are getting muddy in the muck.
    
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      CRYMTYPHON1 year, 8 months ago
      
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      getting muddy in the muck, is the very definition of politics.
      
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        cushi1 year, 8 months ago
        
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        Sad, but true! That's why change is so desperately needed!
        
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        CRYMTYPHON1 year, 8 months ago
        
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        I don't that kind of change is possible, unless we require all candidates, reporters, and bloggers to wear lie detectors set to give a strong electric shock whenever the wearer does not tell the truth.
        I faithfully wear one every time I comment.
        Or am I lying?
        
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    GHOSTWHOWALKS1 year, 8 months ago
    
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    And here I was beginning to believe no one would be dumb enough to support an war mongering piece of doggie do. Shows how really ignorant some people are.
    
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      GHOSTWHOWALKS1 year, 8 months ago
      
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      The McManiacs are out in force today. To bad they don't take the time to read the doggie do's voting record and his chummy ties to lobbyist he says he hasn't ever talked top lobbyist. LOL.
      Dumber than stumps. Part of the reason this country is in such dire straits. Guess they support liars, cheats, and scum.
      
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        mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
        
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        " Democrats are getting squeamish about their frontrunner."
        --Well, no but you conjobs sure are getting desperate for some sleaze you can use to potentially derail either one of these Democratic candidates. LOL
        
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        ybdogsct1 year, 8 months ago
        
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        ANIOKLY:
        "I guess you haven't heard about Obama's ties to lobbyists"
        http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/...
        "While McCain may relish attacking lobbyists, top officials of his campaign -- including Rick Davis, his campaign manager, and Charlie Black, his chief political adviser -- are themselves well-known lobbyists with long client lists.
        McCain had written two letters to the FEC on the sale of a Pittsburgh television station to Paxson Communications. Before the first letter, McCain had flown to campaign events on Paxson's corporate jet 4 times and had received $20,000 in donations from Paxson. The second letter came after the jet ferried him to a Florida fundraiser on a yacht in West Palm Beach.
        McCain's campaign denied he had met Lowell "Bud" Paxson. But Paxson told the Post he had met with McCain. Newsweek also reported that McCain himself acknowledged in a 2002 deposition that he had met with Paxson."
        
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        ybdogsct1 year, 8 months ago
        
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        ANIOKLY:
        "Plus, Obama, and Hillarry have hundreds of Earmarks for all their special interest groups."
        It's funny hearing Bush-supporters accusing Democrats of pork spending when Republicans' records are so much worse.
        The Clinton admin averaged only $11.8 billion in earmarks. The Bush admin with the Republican-controlled 109th Congress averaged OVER DOUBLE this at $23.4 billion. The current Democratic-controlled 110th Congress has reduced Bush's average almost by half to a more reasonable $13.2 billion.
        http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=re...
        CLINTON:
        1993: $6.6 billion
        1994: $7.8 billion
        1995: $10 billion
        1996: $12.5 billion
        1997: $14.5 billion
        1998: $13.2 billion
        1999: $12 billion
        2000: $17.7 billion
        BUSH & Republican-controlled 109th Congress
        2001: $18.5 billion
        2002: $20.1 billion
        2003: $22.5 billion
        2004: $22.9 billion
        2005: $27.3 billion
        2006: $29.0 billion
        Democrat-controlled 110th Congress
        2007: $13.2 billion
        
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        ybdogsct1 year, 8 months ago
        
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        ANIOKLY:
        "Democrats are getting squeamish about their frontrunner."
        So squeamish that Democrats are donating to Obama's campaign coffers at RECORD LEVELS and setting RECORD VOTER TURNOUTS.
        http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070...
        "Barack Obama will likely overwhelm John McCain in campaign spending in what would be the first time in four decades a Democrat will enjoy such an advantage. Obama has amassed $234 million -- three times more than McCain has raised. That puts Obama on the verge of shattering the fundraising mark set by President George W. Bush in 2004."
        There's nothing funnier than watching neocons like ANIOKLY reverse course on McCain. Just a few months ago, these very same neocons were spewing bile at McCain in favor of Romney, Thompson and Giuliani.
        It's fitting that flipfloppers are supporting the flipflopping candidate. ANIOKLY was against McCain before she was for McCain.
        Pathetic.
        
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        http://donoevil.propeller.com/story/2008/01/18/...
        The fact that McCain had made the tasteless joke was reported in major newspapers, as was the vain attempt by his press secretary to initially deny what McCain had done. But in several major newspapers, the joke itself was kept a secret. McCain subsequently apologized.
        ANIOKLY: "What makes you think McCain is such a "nice guy?" That joke was in all the rabid right wing papers, and magazines I read, and they denounced him. I wasn't on line at the time. Candidates say what they think the people they are with want to hear."
        http://politics.propeller.com/story/2007/04/12/...
        ANIOKLY: "Oh Please. McCain will be 72 years old soon. Plus he is on the wrong side of the Immigration issue."
        
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        http://newsquake.netscape.com/tag/propeller/
        ANIOKLY: "I believe most of the values voters will accept Rudy, warts and all. He is the best qualified, an administrator, not a legislator."
        http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/02/03/...
        ANIOKLY: "What will stop McCain is his past stand on Amnesty. He is losing California, his home state of Arizona, and probably Texas. That is enough to put his nomination in jeopardy. God forbid Hillary has to run against a scandal free opponent. Woohoo!!"
        http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/01/30/...
        ANIOKLY: "McCain is old. He needs a young Vice President. He is not going to get the Romney supporters after he drops out, but he might could pick up Giulianis if they cut a deal."
        
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        http://202.108.100.164:8080/gate/big5/politics....
        ANIOKLY: "McCain is also having a difficult time in Arizona. If he loses Arizona, his home state, and California he will lose all the border states. He should not have been so arrogant after a couple little wins. It helps his opponents to have Mark Levin, and Rush ucovering factors in McCains background, but someone has to do it, and it won't be the MSM."
        
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      mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
      
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      The trouble I have with this poll is that it's basically a likeability factor survey. We find out how people feel about certain issues but we don't find out what they know about where candidates stand on the issues. A more substantive poll would have questions like: "Knowing that ultra wealthy Senator John McCain who owns many homes with his multi-millionaire wife and receives tax payer funded healthcare and other benefits (aka socialism) has repeatedly voted against increasing vet benefits and providing health insurance for 10 million innocent American children, are you more likely to vote for him in November or would those vets and children be better off if a Democrat like Hillary or Obama were elected (since they've promised to insure all Americans and increase vet benefits)"? Something like that... ;-x
      
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    Endoscopy1 year, 8 months ago
    
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    engineer
    Sounds great to me. We need to finish instead of the Democrat white flag Harry leading the charge with either Democrat going along.
    
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      mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
      
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      I guess it's a good thing "stay the corpse" Chimp didn't cut and run from Afghanistan. Boy, we're sure doin a bang up job there, ain't we conjobbers? ;-P
      
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  mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
  
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  LOL...I wouldn't panic just yet, engineer. I love this poll... Of freaking COURSE McCain would start looking better to terrified flip-flopping cons once he became the nominee. Their dreams of a Huckleberry, Randy Rudy or Moneybags Mitt Presidency all dashed to hell by the time the later polls were taken. They know they had *better* start sucking it up and "liking" him--cause it's take him or leave him. How could he NOT look good?
  Similarly, with only Hillary and Obama left to duke it out, of COURSE their spats will take center stage (CNN was already doing a 24/7 chronology of Hillary's cackle) and they will lose some points with the public. This ain't rocket science.
  
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    lovemylibs1 year, 8 months ago
    
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    Yes you are correct. The media is the only reason Obama and Hillary are losing points. It has nothing to do with their pettiness, ineptitude or bickering. Really. The public clings to the media's every word.
    
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      mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
      
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      "Yes you are correct. The media is the only reason Obama and Hillary are losing points."
      --Get a grip. I am not slamming the so-called "liberal media" as much as I'm pointing out the fact that the reason they may have dropped in the polls is that the field has narrowed and they are under the microscope to a much greater extent. It's all Hillary and Obama ALL the time. They're down in the polls because people have been talking about them for the last TWO years.
      They ARE the Presidential race at the moment and their "bickering" (which you conjobs would simply refer to as politics if Republicans were doing it) is getting a closer look than it would have it Giuliani, Hucklebee, et al were still on the canvas trying to out family value the next candidate. Stop trying to spin. You'll hurt yourself.
      
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      crespi1 year, 8 months ago
      
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      Not sarcasm at all. But TRUE.
      Very good, lml.
      
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      cushi1 year, 8 months ago
      
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      And far more corrupt, I might add!
      
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      mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
      
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      "lol McCain is far more conservative than any of them, including the newly converted Mitt."
      Urm... Really? Is that why McCain was practically booed off the stage when ultra right wing cons realized he was going to be the nominee? Did you actually read the story (hint: look at the title)? It implies that McCain "won them back" when in actuality what the polls show is that once he became the nominee, bitter (oh wait...I shouldn't say "bitter"-it might sound "elitist") and confused wingers realized that the bottom of the barrel was what they had to live with and decided to suck it up.
      
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