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POLL SHOWS DEAD HEAT

Far-Right Challenger a Threat to McCain

Talk show host JD Hayworth gets close in new poll

By Kevin Spak| Posted Nov 20, 09 10:09 AM CST|

(Newser) – Everyone’s favorite maverick could be unseated in 2010 by a hard-line conservative talk show host who's mulling a bid, a new Rasmussen poll suggests. John McCain leads potential primary opponent JD Hayworth, a local radio host and former House member, by a razor-thin 2%, which is within the poll’s 4% margin of error. Whoever emerged from that battle would almost certainly sail through the general election, Talking Points Memo reports, because Democrats still don’t have a strong candidate.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., pauses in the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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alkaseltzersammich
Nov 20, 09 10:11 AM CST

The GOP is falling apart at the seams if your PRESIDENTIAL candidate from 2008 might get unseated. Election FAIL. Reply

+17

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 10:15 AM CST

I don't think the liberals in the GOP understand just how serious conservatives are. I would be happy to see McCain lose his seat as well as any other liberal pretending to be a Republican.

-12

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Reader64481089
Nov 20, 09 10:18 AM CST

Personally I love the fact that the Conservative Party is now tossing aside the Republican Power Base, already the Religious Right left politics months ago and are still pulling further and further away not the Neo Nazi element of the Right is asserting itself and all the while Republicans are tearing themselves apart.. Go for it Repubs, you are making yourselves more of a minority with each group you toss aside until the point you have no base left to elect even a dog catcher to office.

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thudson
Nov 20, 09 10:22 AM CST

split the vote! split the vote!

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RockyPneumonia
Nov 20, 09 10:22 AM CST

And, once again, dly, terrified that someone, somewhere might mistakenly consider him to be sane, refers to "liberals" in the GOP as if there really were, y'know, any.

+16

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Fondue
Nov 20, 09 10:24 AM CST

DLY, I hope conservatives continue the path they are on. They should remove themselves from any Republican affiliation.

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 10:36 AM CST

Only a delusional, self absorbed narcissist would ignore facts. I suppose Olympia Snow is not a liberal. Grow up boy.

-9

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Count-Spatula
Nov 20, 09 10:40 AM CST

dontlikeyou, your party is going nowhere. When you're in a hole , stop digging! A year later, you're still digging. You are not swinging centrist votes, just underscoring the votes of righty lunatics that were never in question. See ya at the polls.

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 10:40 AM CST

{{{ [fondue] I hope conservatives continue the path they are on }}}} --------- It's so nice to have the well wishes of a leftist moron. Thanks, but conservatives do not give a damn about liberals except in our efforts to defeat you totally and completely in the political and social arena.

-8

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 10:47 AM CST

{{{ [countspatulat] You are not swinging centrist votes }}} Really? Are you that stupid?

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oldgoat
Nov 20, 09 1:39 PM CST

McCain really isn't the maverick any more. This last election he sold his soul to try to get the election and it still failed him. I used to think highly of him, but after the last election I have totally reversed my thinking on him.

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RockyPneumonia
Nov 20, 09 1:53 PM CST

"Only a delusional, self absorbed narcissist would ignore facts." ------- "Fact" is not defined, by sane people, as "that which Right-Wing Wackos desperately wish were true."

-3

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 6:12 PM CST

Liberal Charlie Crist in Florida is having a tough time too with Max Rubio, a real conservative battling Crist for the GOP nomination for FL Senate. Several months ago, Rubio polled at 4% This week, he is polling at 37%. Conservatism keeps rolling on. Look out RINOs. Back to the left with you all.

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Jes
Nov 20, 09 6:46 PM CST

DLY, those aren't conservatives, those are radicals. Being a moderate doesn't make you a liberal, it makes you normal and not obsessive.

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davjc09
Nov 20, 09 10:12 AM CST

NY-23 all over again? Reply

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Fondue
Nov 20, 09 10:21 AM CST

No. Not unless Palin gets involved and a strong Dem candidate pops up.

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davjc09
Nov 20, 09 10:25 AM CST

I didnt think Owens was a particularly strong candidate. But it would be a huge story if Palin backed a McCain opponent.

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 10:38 AM CST

I hope that she does. Palin is the real Maverick here, not liberal boot licker, John McCain.

-5

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Count-Spatula
Nov 20, 09 10:37 AM CST

This would be such awesome retribution for the deal he made with the devil. How does selling out your values, and picking a lunatic as your running mate feel now you pathetic old man? Reply

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JaneMP
Nov 20, 09 10:46 AM CST

When you're so far right (like dnl) that you're falling of the edge of your flat world, ANYONE further to the left, anyone with a functioning brain cell, looks like a liberal. The Republicans in SC are censoring Graham who is the 15th most conservative senator. My fear is that this small minority of wingnuts will split the country wide open because of their lies and negativity and idiocy and the fear they foster. I truly fear these idiots will kill someone, a politician they consider too liberal. God save America. Reply

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 10:51 AM CST

It's DLY moron.

-5

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Caps
Nov 20, 09 11:03 AM CST

No DLY, it's you that is a moron.

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dax
Nov 20, 09 11:24 AM CST

@JaneMP - the power of the internet has allowed the paranoids and the Rightnutters to aggregate and draw the self-marginalized into an organized movement that builds on a self-justifying, closed loop thought process.

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 12:48 PM CST

@dax.... you make a good attempt to sound knowledgeable... but you missed..... low and to the left.

-1

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dax
Nov 20, 09 10:22 PM CST

DLY, at least its a GOOD attempt.

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 10:50 AM CST

Poor McCain. He is so worried about losing his seat in 2010 that he has come out against Lindsey Graham and Joe Leiberman on the Climate Bill. Note that McCain supports climate legislation, just like you whacky libs. McCain must go. Reply

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JoeQ
Nov 20, 09 11:04 AM CST

If you listen to him, that J D Hayworth feller is pretty darn nutty. I don't think the people of Arizona are foolish enough to dump McCain for a guy like Hayworth. They stuck by McCain during some low points like the Keating scandal. The extreme right doesn't have a strong enough base in Arizona to unseat McCain. Reply

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dax
Nov 20, 09 11:17 AM CST

Funny that these same folks who embraced John McCain in 2008 as their candidate are now on a 'slash and burn' campaign. If NOW, McCain is TOO LIBERAL for these people, after they promoted him with a mean-spirited mania, why should anyone trust or believe their judgment now as they push their own radical ideologues into the arena ? ---- It is important to make a distinction between "pop" Conservatives (on the order of Beck, Rush) and authentic Conservatives (Brooks, Will) because the irrational ranting of the former is drowning out the legitimacy of the latter. Reply

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 12:45 PM CST

{{{ Funny that these same folks who embraced John McCain in 2008 }}}} --- @dax.... there you go again, talking like you have a clue. I voted for the only Conservative in the GOP primary, Ron Paul. I wouldn't ever waste a vote on a liberal whether he is in the democrat or republican party.

-2

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dax
Nov 20, 09 10:30 PM CST

DLY (wrote) "I voted for the only Conservative in the GOP primary, Ron Paul." --- So in the actual election, you either just did not vote, thereby giving Obama (gasp !) a one vote advantage, or (gasp !) voted for "non-Conservative" McCain upon whom you now disparage.

-1

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Count-Spatula
Nov 20, 09 11:26 AM CST

How does it feel to be ejected by the lunatics you handed power to John? Due to a cynical miscalculation, your failed bid for the presiddency handed your party's power over to unthinking Christian conservatives. McCain conservativism will be the failed companion to Goldwater conservativism . Reply

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foodchain11
Nov 20, 09 12:00 PM CST

Be still my beating heart! Two mavericks down!! And Hayworth is the perfect replacement. Reply

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serfinWI
Nov 20, 09 12:20 PM CST

Big deal. There's 3 years to go. There's going to be a lot more of this before it's all decided. Reply

-1

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Vice
Nov 20, 09 12:48 PM CST

This is too hilarious, the closet nazis are getting kicked out by the openly-nazi nazis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reply

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 6:15 PM CST

You're a moron. Oh, I forgot this part !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-1

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So_Cal_Larry
Nov 20, 09 1:49 PM CST

It's time for Senator McCain to go home and retire. Reply

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So_Cal_Larry
Nov 20, 09 1:50 PM CST

It's time for Senator McCain to go home and retire into history. Reply

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BlueAyez
Nov 20, 09 4:31 PM CST

I've always wanted to see this day -- Republicans eating their own, but realistically what's trying to rise up in place of the Republican party is probably the worst of two evils. Reply

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 6:14 PM CST

Republicans are not eating their own. We're throwing the liberals out of our party because they stunk up the place for the past 10 years.

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DarkFrancis
Nov 20, 09 5:04 PM CST

All the Dems need is a half-decent candidate to walk in on all these fractious and idiotic GOP bitch fights and it's bye bye, party of stupid. Reply

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DontLikeYou
Nov 20, 09 6:35 PM CST

I don't consider the Democrat party stupid.... just delusional and racist.

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Caps
Nov 20, 09 6:45 PM CST

You are a wishy-washy ass hole DLY. Reply

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DontLikeYou
Jan 26, 10 11:37 AM CST

And you're just an asshole.

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