{"id":1535,"date":"2008-01-31T23:04:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T15:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2009-03-09T21:51:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T13:51:06","slug":"1530-of-mccain-to-be-the-next-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1535","title":{"rendered":"[1530] Of McCain to be the next President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting graphics at <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/24\/raising-mccain\/\" target=\"_blank\">Campaign Stops<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/Graphics\/200801NytPewSpectrumUsPresE.gif?resize=500%2C257&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Fair use\" width=\"500\" height=\"257\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Between the Republican McCain and the Democrats Clinton and Obama, the former is closer to the center:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly lost in the blizzard of recent poll reports were the findings of a Gallup survey that the current Republican frontrunner, John McCain, might well give each of the two Democratic frontrunners a run for their money.<\/p>\n<p>When Gallup asked 1,598 likely voters whom they\u2019d back if the presidential election were held today, respondents chose Senator McCain over Barack Obama by a 50 percent to 45 percent margin, and also preferred the Arizona senator to Hillary Clinton by a modest 50 percent to 47 percent margin. [<a href=\"http:\/\/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/24\/raising-mccain\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Raising McCain<\/em><\/a>. Campaign Stops. January 24 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I am unsure about McCain. Though he does have an environmental credential (remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=296\">McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act<\/a>?), it is mixed at best while his grasp on economics is a turn off. He is also hawkish on security issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting graphics at Campaign Stops: Between the Republican McCain and the Democrats Clinton and Obama, the former is closer to the center: Nearly lost in the blizzard of recent poll reports were the findings of a Gallup survey that the current Republican frontrunner, John McCain, might well give each of the two Democratic frontrunners a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-mccain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}