The McCain Strategy

By Dave
Jun 9th 2008 1:17PM

Filed Under:eJohn McCain, 2008 President, Polls

Tip to the Washington Post:



In Summary:

  • McCain can compete in the west because of his stance on immigration with Latino's
  • McCain wins Appalachia because poor white voters can't stand Obama.
  • McCain is historically strong in the upper Midwest states of Wisconsin and Michigan.
  • McCain doesn't need as much money as Obama to run his ops.

Sounds good, but points number one and two would seem to be mutually exclusive, as much of the opposition to McCain's immigration came from exactly those same poor whites that McCain claims as supporters in Kentucky, West Virginia, etc.

The McCain advisor Davis also claims that McCain outperforms general election polls, which is a good thing because he's off to a very bad start in the general tracking polls. In fact it seems that the rift in the Democratic party caused by Hillary is disappearing fast. Obama has moved up five points since June 4th while McCain is down a point, according to Rasmussen.

State by state polls are more important of course, but the general election matchups do indicate that McCain has work to do, but there is reason for optimism in the McCain camp.

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