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Originally Posted by Zyphlin  Pretty simple really, go look at the primary results. McCain continually lost the strong conservative, strong republican vote. The problem was, he was THE person at the top of the list for anyone that was a moderate to liberal republican. However those that were more conservative republicans had a number of various candidates to choose between. As such, their votes were split between them throughout the states where as McCain had his niche well set, and rode it all the way through. |
Well you know Duncan Hunter could argue that if he didn't have Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, Tom Tancredo, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Ron Paul splitting up his base he would've won the nomination. John McCain won because more people who voted in Republican caucuses and primaries wanted him to be the nominee than anyone else. Whether or not Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee were more often the 2nd or 3rd favorite than John McCain, who was more love him or hate him, is immaterial.
Some Republicans don't like John McCain and we're still talking about this because it's a story the liberal media enjoys.