Will Connecticut be a swing state in 2008?

[Lief 🗽]

Good thing McCain wants to run on gun rights and taxes.

Oh, wait.

NH is solid Dem.

[Duke 🇺🇸]

Good thing McCain wants to run on gun rights and taxes.

Oh, wait.

NH is solid Dem.

Are you suggesting Obama will be more right on guns and taxes than McCain?

[Lief 🗽]

Good thing McCain wants to run on gun rights and taxes.

Oh, wait.

NH is solid Dem.

Are you suggesting Obama will be more right on guns and taxes than McCain?

No, I'm saying that gun rights probably will not be a salient issue in the 2008 general election.

[Duke 🇺🇸]

Good thing McCain wants to run on gun rights and taxes.

Oh, wait.

NH is solid Dem.

Are you suggesting Obama will be more right on guns and taxes than McCain?

No, I'm saying that gun rights probably will not be a salient issue in the 2008 general election.

Probably not ... but I don't think the Iraq war will be a major issue either in the 2008 general election. It will be about taxes, the economy, immigration, and healthcare.

[Lief 🗽]

Good thing McCain wants to run on gun rights and taxes.

Oh, wait.

NH is solid Dem.

Are you suggesting Obama will be more right on guns and taxes than McCain?

No, I'm saying that gun rights probably will not be a salient issue in the 2008 general election.

Probably not ... but I don't think the Iraq war will be a major issue either in the 2008 general election. It will be about taxes, the economy, immigration, and healthcare.

How does John McCain run on those things though? He's naturally a war president, not a domestic issue president. I'd guess that he would try to focus the race on foreign policy.

[Duke 🇺🇸]

Good thing McCain wants to run on gun rights and taxes.

Oh, wait.

NH is solid Dem.

Are you suggesting Obama will be more right on guns and taxes than McCain?

No, I'm saying that gun rights probably will not be a salient issue in the 2008 general election.

Probably not ... but I don't think the Iraq war will be a major issue either in the 2008 general election. It will be about taxes, the economy, immigration, and healthcare.

How does John McCain run on those things though? He's naturally a war president, not a domestic issue president. I'd guess that he would try to focus the race on foreign policy.

I don't know how McCain will run his campaign, just as well as I don't know how Obama will run his campaign--except there will be "change." I know Obama is not a war President. I imagine McCain will run on cutting spending and pork, keeping the tax cuts permanent as long as spending is held in check, etc ..

[หมูเด้ง]

Connecticut is out of reach. Get over it. It will probably go 56-43

[Angel of Death]

I forgot, is it BRTD or jfern who would have tended to phrase the options as follows?

• Yes (AHDuke99)
• No (sane)

[Duke 🇺🇸]

I forgot, is it BRTD or jfern who would have tended to phrase the options as follows?

• Yes (AHDuke99)
• No (sane)

I voted no, but whatever.

[Angel of Death]

I forgot, is it BRTD or jfern who would have tended to phrase the options as follows?

• Yes (AHDuke99)
• No (sane)

I voted no, but whatever.

For what it's worth, I'm not particularly a fan of this kind of "push polling".

[WalterMitty]

McCain can't win Kerry (or Gore) states.

...but Obama can win safe Bush states?

Well see Phil, there wan ARG poll of eight Utah college students that show Obama up by 5 points there, so clearly Obama will win everything, everywhere.  Every precinct in America will go 100% for Obama, except for one small precinct in Arizona where they allow McCain to vote for himself.  I fail to understand why we are even having an election, when clearly Obama will win the election with 105% of the vote.  Clearly the campaigns should be ended, polls should be closed, and no more voting should occur since the dude who was a state legislator just four years ago will so clearly defeat an American hero.

youre right.

ive been advocating for some time that we just call off the election and all stand in line to kiss the feet of the great obama.

anyone who can pile up present votes in the illinois state legislature and spit out mindless platitudes (that others have written) has to be damn close to perfect.

we should appoint him president for life!

[AndrewTX]

If Hillary is the nominee, it's possible. I'd still say the Dems will win it, but McCain could pick up some votes, and posisbly gain Fairfield and Litchfield Counties.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I don't think that Connecticut will be a swing state in 2008.  All of the Northeast states have been trending so hard to the left that I think in the end all of them will be out of reach for Republicans.

I don't think that McCain could take any of the Kerry states.  Even Wisconsin, which was so close in '04, will likely break further in the Democratic direction because this election is not about a 51% strategy.  It's about unifying people.

[Brittain33]

The anti-war state of Connecticut must've gotten confused when voting for Lieberman last year.

They did when Lieberman ran ads promising to bring our soldiers home from war, and campaigned largely on lunch-pail issues and his own independence.

Lieberman tempered his hawkishness for the campaign.

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

The anti-war state of Connecticut must've gotten confused when voting for Lieberman last year.

They did when Lieberman ran ads promising to bring our soldiers home from war, and campaigned largely on lunch-pail issues and his own independence.

Lieberman tempered his hawkishness for the campaign.

And now polls show that Lieberman would lose.

[Joe Kakistocracy]

And now polls show that Lieberman would lose.

Poll.  I've corrected you on this already this week.

[Хahar 🤔]

This thread is hilarious. As was that map.

There are hacks all around us. In our schools...in our workplaces...even in our homes.

[HardRCafé]

No way.  McCain will push New England even further away than Bush did.

Whereas Romney would have made it tossup!  Romney 2012!

[Verily]

Good thing McCain wants to run on gun rights and taxes.

Oh, wait.

NH is solid Dem.

Are you suggesting Obama will be more right on guns and taxes than McCain?

No, I'm saying that gun rights probably will not be a salient issue in the 2008 general election.

Probably not ... but I don't think the Iraq war will be a major issue either in the 2008 general election. It will be about taxes, the economy, immigration, and healthcare.

How does John McCain run on those things though? He's naturally a war president, not a domestic issue president. I'd guess that he would try to focus the race on foreign policy.

I don't know how McCain will run his campaign, just as well as I don't know how Obama will run his campaign--except there will be "change." I know Obama is not a war President. I imagine McCain will run on cutting spending and pork, keeping the tax cuts permanent as long as spending is held in check, etc ..

McCain's "the economy is not my strong suit" line certainly won't be much help.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Good thing McCain wants to run on gun rights and taxes.

Oh, wait.

NH is solid Dem.

Are you suggesting Obama will be more right on guns and taxes than McCain?

No, I'm saying that gun rights probably will not be a salient issue in the 2008 general election.

Probably not ... but I don't think the Iraq war will be a major issue either in the 2008 general election. It will be about taxes, the economy, immigration, and healthcare.

How does John McCain run on those things though? He's naturally a war president, not a domestic issue president. I'd guess that he would try to focus the race on foreign policy.

I don't know how McCain will run his campaign, just as well as I don't know how Obama will run his campaign--except there will be "change." I know Obama is not a war President. I imagine McCain will run on cutting spending and pork, keeping the tax cuts permanent as long as spending is held in check, etc ..

McCain's "the economy is not my strong suit" line certainly won't be much help.

Nor will this picture: