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McCain Wins Florida
McCain pulled off a close victory in Florida. McCain had 36% with Romney at 31%. Giuliani was a distant third at 15% with Huckabee trailing behind the New York mayor at 13%. Ron Paul, the Dennis Kucinich of the GOP, came in last at a very distant 3%.
According to headlines on Fox News, Giuliani is expected to quit the race. Hopefully Huckabee and Paul will take a hint and drop out as well thus making it a two horse race.
Hillary had an unsurprising win in Florida, receiving 50% with Obama trailing at 33% and Edwards, in the "also ran" position, receiving 14%, meaning he did better than Huckabee and almost as well as Giuliani.
Florida was the battleground with a lot of negative campaigning and McCain claiming he is more conservative than Romney. We'll set aside McCain's claims of being a conservative. I don't like negative campaigning. I don't like it when one candidate claims to be more of something than his competitors, whether the claim is more conservative, more liberal, or more qualified.
I like issues driven campaigns. I want to know what a candidate will do for or, in the case of the Hillarys and Obamas, what) they will do to our country. I want to know where they stand in the War on Terrorism and rebuilding Iraq as a democratic nation and ally. I want to know how they will control Federal spending and if/how they will reduce the size of government. I want to know how they will go about reforming Social Security, secure our borders and deal with the some 20 million illegal aliens now living within the United States. I want to know how they will treat our Armed Forces and how they will manage our nuclear arsenal.
Claiming to have a bigger "tool" than the other guy just doesn't cut it. Especially when it comes from someone like McCain whose record shows him to be anything BUT conservative.
Next week is Super Tuesday. A lot of States will come into play, including Minnesota with its caucus system.
My field of choices has narrowed to one: Romney.
But when push comes to shove in November, I'll vote GOP, not because it is the right thing to do, but because any of the GOP candidates will be better than having Hillary or Obama as president and in control of our nuclear arsenal.
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