LOL.
From Frank Luntz:
And, by the way, if McCain loses South Carolina, he may still win Michigan, but it will be over. The only way for McCain to win is to win both of these states.
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George W. Bush's victory in South Carolina was almost as wide and deep as John McCain?s in New Hampshire. Bush won among men and women, in every income group; he held his own among veterans. In one, not unimportant respect, it was a more substantial victory than the one in New Hampshire. New Hampshire didn?t knock Bush out of contention for the Republican nomination. South Carolina effectively ended McCain?s chances.
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George Will more or less said the same. No wonder McCain was so visibly petulant. Interesting that McCain more or less lied about the results:
Just as disturbing in McCain's concession performance was how often he said things that were just wrong. He denounced Bush for running an exclusionary campaign - when it is obvious that Bush actually helped bring out more voters to the polls, but they just happened not to be McCain voters. In the CNN interview, McCain said that he won every segment of the electorate except the Christian right. This is notable for two reasons: 1) it was a direct pander to the media, which so desperately wants to believe that; 2) it was totally untrue, as McCain lost to Bush across the board, among almost every demographic group. When CNN's Jeff Greenfield asked McCain why the tone of his concession remarks was so different from the way he usually sounds, McCain basically attacked Greenfield as lazy, and did so in the service of a denial ? maintaining that the remarks weren't different from his usual message--that was frankly untrue.
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