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Originally Posted by maximusveritas
These flip-flops may get McCain closer to the Republican nomination, but they are going to cause him to lose a significant amount of votes from Democrats and Independents who bought into his "maverick" "straight shooter" image. It's going to be very hard for him to win a general election against anybody other than perhaps Hillary.
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McCain knows that he has to win the Republican primary though. And he has to move to the right in order to do so. After the primary is over, then he might move back towards the middle.
I would think that Hillary (and Bill) would be the hardest people to beat. Most of the solid red states would go republican, but there would be enough women voters to push states like Ohio into the democratic column. I don't know enough about the new democratic candidates and how well they will do. But, I bet there will be 9 or 10 of them.