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McCain on a roll

Posted by Sini

This is great news for McCain. Rasmussen's new Wisconsin poll has him just 1 point behind Obama in Wisconsin, a must-win state for Democrats, and a stunning 12 points ahead of Hillary Clinton.

Still more disturbing news out of Virginia, where McCain is now 9 points ahead of Obama and, get this, 22 points ahead of Clinton.

McCain, viewed favorably by 64% and unfavorably by 34%, is the most popular candidate among the state’s voters. Fifty-three percent (53%) give Obama a favorable rating while 47% give him an unfavorable rating. Clinton’s ratings are 37% favorable and 61% unfavorable. For Clinton, those figures reflect a sharp decline over the past month. In February, 48% of Likely Voters in Virginia had a favorable opinion of the former First Lady.

The bottom line right now is that McCain looks like the white knight, the essentially unknown, independent, moderate candidate. That will change when the Democratic nomination ends. The Clintons would like to see happen in September; in this way, the division among Democrats will result in defeat in Obama so they can run against McCain in 2012. As we can see from the post below, that is unlikely to happen. And what's equally unlikely to happen, possibly ever, is for Hillary to win Virginia or Wisconsin. Which means she may never get to be president, no matter what.

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