Polls finds hypothetical Kerry-McCain ticket with advantage over Bush

Polls finds hypothetical Kerry-McCain ticket with advantage over Bush-Cheney
Associated Press
Thursday, May 27, 2004
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The hypothetical pairing of Democrat John Kerry and Republican Sen. John McCain holds a double-digit lead over the Republican ticket of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, a new poll finds.
Kerry-McCain has a 14-point advantage over Bush-Cheney among registered voters, 53 percent to 39 percent, in the latest CBS News poll. The results were released Thursday.
The lead is nearly double the edge Kerry alone enjoys over Bush.
McCain set off speculation in April when he said he would consider an offer from Kerry, a Senate colleague and fellow Vietnam veteran, to be his running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket.
But McCain has said several times since then that he supports Bush's re-election and does not want to be anyone's vice president, although he continues to be talked about as a possible choice for Kerry.
A random sample of 1,113 adults was interviewed by telephone for the CBS News poll, which was conducted May 20-23. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, larger for subgroups.
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They would point out how ideologically opposed the two are--interviews with McCain would either prove him to be in disagreement with Kerry, or they would piss off the Democratic base. The holiday McCain 'he's a straight shooter!' would cease in an instant, and it would be back to smears and obfuscation.

Assuming the campaign survives this ticket so egregiously divided on policy, we as Democrats would have to deal with the misery of an executive branch that is a picture of disunity--it would either be the end of Kerry's career, or McCain's.

Dewey-Truman!
Eisenhower-Stevenson!
Clinton-Bush!
Harry Potter-SpiderMan!

All winning tickets. This is stupid and irresponsible media speculation.

If the Republicans want to dump Bush and run McCain, they should do so. Democrats don't run Republicans at the top of their tickets.

This is stupid and irresponsible media speculation.

Finding a pile of dog shit in the newspaper woudl be better than this

It's obvious that the bushites and media are using McCain to weaken Kerry. They are trying to compare McCain to Kerry militarily. If you can't see the hidden message, you don't know the enemy.

You know if this were to happen it might actually restore some of the
faith in our political system.

I hear Democrats talking about how McCain actually is too far to the right for them to be
comfortable with. Frankly, I don't understand that talk. There are few
positions that I, even as a hard-core liberal, am not willing to compromise
on because I understand that conservatives and liberals are pretty
evenly split in this country. I think the benefits of having a Kerry-McCain
ticket far, FAR outweight the disadvantages. And for the Democrats to
be able to form a "unity" White House would be a huge example to
hard-core conservatives and Republicans, who have demonstrated only their
interest in as much power as possible.

Ok, he's conservative, but what does it matter? He'd be VP. And by VP
I don't mean the real president like Cheney is. I've read stuff by people saying that he'd
interfere with Kerry's agenda, but I highly doubt that. McCain would be
picked for his focus on national security, and Kerry and McCain see
very closely on that issue.

In re;lated news,
GOP pollster Luntz revealed Limbaugh's role in new survey
http://mediamatters.org/items/200405250004

Republican pollster Frank Luntz, CEO and president of Luntz Research Companies, appeared as a guest on the May 21 FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes to present the results of his new poll that purportedly showed that a plurality of Democrats say if they had the choice they would prefer Senator Hillary Clinton over Senator John Kerry as their presidential nominee. Luntz admitted radio host Rush Limbaugh had a role in instigating the survey:

For those who don't get it, why did CBS only polled/reported the McCain, Edwards possibilities?

if kerry goes by these numbers, but looks for a democrat, it looks good for clark who is another military man.