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By Adam Fogle | January 18th, 2008 | 3 comments
I would imagine that these are probably going to be the last polls released for tomorrow’s South Carolina GOP primary, or at least the last ones that I’m going to cover because they all say the same exact thing. With that lovely introduction, here are the latest (and hopefully final) polls from Zogby International and Survey USA:
- John McCain – 29%
- Mike Huckabee – 22%
- Mitt Romney – 15%
- Fred Thompson – 13%
- Ron Paul – 4%
- Rudy Giuliani – 2%
- Undecided – 9%
- John McCain – 31%
- Mike Huckabee – 27%
- Mitt Romney – 17%
- Fred Thompson – 16%
- Ron Paul – 5%
- Rudy Giuliani – 2%
- Undecided – 2%
Note: I called these polls “pointless” in the headline for two reasons: 1. Not because they are wrong, but on the contrary, because they all pretty much have the same results; 2. The alliteration worked well.
You are right, Polls mean nothing and why should we care about what other people think anyway? Penn and Teller did a great episode of Bullsh*t on this topic.
Being a mild republican from the Midwest, I am really looking to the SC Primary with specific interest. When we look back, I think SC will be a deciding date for a number of the candidates.
A McCain nomination is an absolute victory for the Dems. Conservatives will bail big time (especially the SoCons) and, like it or not, Repubs can’t win without them. McCain’s history of betrayal against conservatives is his Achilles heel.
Examples of his assaults on Americans:
McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.
McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.
McCain-Lieberman — the most burdensome and intrusive attack on American industry in American history — involved mandated reporting, regulating, and taxing of greenhouse gas emissions.
McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the ruse of a patients’ bill of rights.
McCain – Re-importation of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety.
And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 & 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialistic, class-warfare rhetoric against tax cuts. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.
McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.
McCain was never a friend to conservative values. What makes anyone think that he has changed?
McCain is ANTI-American Sovereignty; ANTI- American Industry; and ANTI-American Economy. McCain is a socialist Democrap in disguise, a RINO candidate if there ever was one.
do all 4% of Ron Paul supporters have yard signs and bumper stickers or are people using his sign to get attention then voting in polls for someone else? Or are all his supporters answering only cell phones and today’s vote , if counted correctly and legitmately, show Ron Paul takes SC by storm……
I personally only know two people NOT voting for him, my parents.