McCain is getting his butt kicked.
Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) leads McCain, who captured the delegates needed to claim the Republican nomination Tuesday night, by 12 percentage points among all adults in the poll; Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) holds a six-point lead over the GOP nominee. Both Democrats are buoyed by moderates and independents when going head to head with McCain and benefit from sustained negative public assessments of President Bush and the war in Iraq.
About two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling his job and think the war was not worth fighting, and most hold those positions “strongly.” A slim majority also doubt that the United States is making progress toward restoring civil order in Iraq, even as McCain and others extol recent successes there.
Now there’s an idea. Let’s turn the rest of the primaries into a butt-kicking contest. Whoever gives J-Mc the worst beatdown gets the nomination.
Let someone mention his war record. No swift boating required. The man was the NVA’s best pilot. He crashed 4 planes, set fire to his own carrier and then got shot down. 5 planes = Ace.
Or Reverse Ace.
The poll was among adults: not likely, or even registered, voters.
And oh by the way, exactly 4 years ago this very poll looked … exactly the same. How’d that turn out?