Day: February 3, 2008
Mitt-man Limbaugh: ‘A Vote for Huckabee Is a Vote for McCain’
The best entertainment going this season is the crack up on the right over the ascendancy of John McCain. What could be more fun than witnessing the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Hugh Hewitt and others in a full-bore panic because the conservative movement is imploding under their feet.
Hugh Hewett was just on CNN whining because the mainstream media is ignoring the rightwing radio talkers’ endorsements of Mitt Romney and, particularly, their message to their listeners that a vote for Mike Huckabee is a vote for McCain.
As a Democrat, I heartily endorse their efforts on Romney’s behalf, and since Dittoheads and Coulter Clones often troll these pages, here is Rush on Huckabee from his Thursday show:
RUSH: The popular vote right now doesn’t matter, it’s a delegate thing and that’s why right now Super Tuesday — I mean Hugh Hewitt ran some numbers here, worst-case scenario from Romney, just to be fair about it, and these numbers, I’m having to get them from my head and I may be off by a couple hundred but the point will be made.
At the end of Super Tuesday, the number of delegates McCain could have would be in the 700s, the number Romney would have would be in the 300s, that’s large to overcome. It can be done, it can still be done, but that’s monumental, and Huckabee will be in there with 150 some odd. The real key to this is Huckabee. A vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain in the primaries.
Just doing our part to help Republican voters!
Poll: Obama Pulls Even with Clinton in California – 18% Undecided
The Field Poll is considered the gold standard among California surveys:
A startling surge of support for Barack Obama has catapulted the Illinois senator into a virtual tie with Hillary Rodham Clinton in California’s Democratic presidential primary, a Field Poll released Saturday shows…
But the Democratic numbers are the shocker. Clinton, a longtime California favorite, saw her once-commanding lead slip to two percentage points, 36 to 34 percent, in the new survey. That’s down from the New York senator’s 12 percentage point lead in mid-January and a 25 percentage point margin over Obama in October.
But with 18 percent of Democratic voters still undecided just days before Tuesday’s primary, the election is still up for grabs, said Mark DiCamillo, the poll’s director.
About three weeks ago, Clinton had a 31 percentage point lead over Obama in the Bay Area. Apparently that advantage is collapsing, perhaps because Edwards’ supporters there are breaking for Obama. Clinton’s lead in Los Angeles (which has roughly double the population of the Bay Area) remains strong.
Among Republicans, John McCain is leading Mitt Romney 32 to 24 percent. Mike Huckabee has 13 percent and Ron Paul has 10 percent.
