In recent polls, McCain's polled advantage in a head-to-head contest with Hillary Clinton has been getting smaller. Now it is withing five to ten points, down from the fifteen to twenty point lead he boasted several months ago. This is due to the fact that McCain, this past weekend, spoke at Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Falwell believes that God blew up the world trade center because he was mad at homosexuals. McCain, attempting to make nice to the far right, is
alienating his real base, the third of the population that identifies as independent. McCain knows that if he can straddle two of the three basically equal groups, (D, R, and I), he can win. However, he seems nervous that a radically conservative opponent will be launched, and he is trying to show his true colors. It won't work. by rushing to the right, he is abandoning his devoted center in the rain, and they won't run back for cover with him. No, they'll give the Dems a try. Hillary can thank her lucky stars, and so can Mark Warner, and George Allen, who dreams of the GOP nomination.
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