Debate Politics Forums - View Single Post - Why is McCain disliked by a majority of the republicans?

Zyphlin · 07-17-08, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by galenrox

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.

ITs arguing something different though. He was insinuating that since he was the Republican nominee, that must automatically mean a majority of republics LIKE him, not dislike him.

I said that's not necessarily true.

Lets look at the 5 big vote getters for the Republicans:

McCain, Thompson, Huckabee, Romney, Paul

My belief is, in general, you had Thompson, Huck, Romney, and Paul all splitting the core base of the Republican party and the staunch conservatives while McCain had himself a nice little niche of the liberal/moderate republicans (with Huckabee making inroads for it as time went on).

Or, put another way.

Lets say that 40% of the party is moderate/liberal and 60% is conservative.

McCain getting 35% of the moderate total could still beat out the other four guys if they all split that 60% in such a way that no single person gets more than McCain from his little niche.

All I'm saying is that McCain getting the nominee in no way proves or shows that "the majority of republicans like McCain".