Republican frontrunner John McCain remains unpopular among Christian conservatives, who said they would rather vote for Democratic contenders Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, according to a new poll.
Only 9.1 percent of respondents supported McCain, compared to Obama’s 26.3 percent – which is up 8 percent from last week – according to GodTube.com. Clinton’s Christian conservative support remains the same from the previous week at 19.6 percent. Meanwhile, Republican underdog Mike Huckabee has the highest Christian vote, leading the poll at 45 percent.
“Our poll clearly indicates a dramatic change in the pulse of the Christian voter this election,” said Chris Wyatt, founder and CEO of GodTube.com, in a statement.
“There are a great deal of undecided Christian voters and we’re in discussions with the candidates to address the Christian community directly through GodTube.com’s ongoing election coverage.”
GodTube.com, a users’ video-based social network, has more than 2.5 million monthly visitors and over 280,000 registered Christian users, including 25,000 churches.
While the poll indicates McCain still has a ways to go with winning over Christians, the Arizona senator is doing quite well among GOP leaders.
On Thursday, former Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney endorsed McCain in his bid for the White House. The former Massachusetts governor called McCain a true American hero who could lead the United States during this “dangerous hour.”
“In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror,” Romney said, criticizing the Democrats’ stance on the war on terror, according to CNN.
“I disagree with Sen. McCain on a number of issues,” Romney said when he announced his decision to bow out of the race. “But I agree with him on doing whatever it takes to be successful in Iraq, on finding and executing Osama bin Laden, and I agree with him on eliminating al Qaeda and terror worldwide.”
Romney had suspended his campaign two weeks ago as McCain’s chief rival, coming in second based on delegate counts. Romney will “release” his delegates to McCain to help the Arizona senator move faster to “secure the nomination and unite the party for the general election against the Democrats for November,” according to one source to CNN.
Releasing delegates means that Romney will encourage them to support McCain’s candidacy. If successful, those delegates would give McCain 1,013 total delegates, only 78 short to secure the nomination.
Huckabee, the only top-tier Republican candidate left in the race besides McCain, has 217 delegates.
Despite the near impossibility of winning, Huckabee said he will continue to run.
“I think still the Republican Party ought to be big enough to have the debate, the discussion and an election,” said Huckabee after Romney’s endorsement of McCain, according to CNN. “If we have a battle and [McCain] wins, he wins.
“But he hasn’t won yet so I just think it’s a little bit premature to go ahead and slice the cake when you haven’t had the wedding yet.”
The former Arkansas governor said there is a “‘me too’ herd mentality” in the GOP in supporting McCain.
“What I’m concerned about is that there are a whole lot of people out here in middle America who are feeling left out,” he said. “They’re feeling their votes aren’t even going to be counted.”
The next contests for Republicans will be in Wisconsin and Washington on Tuesday. Democratic candidates will also compete for Wisconsin and Hawaii on the same day.
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I don't know about moving out of the country, but I am definitely moving to the State of Anxiety, followed by moving to the State of Panic, eventually retiring to the State of Perfect Nothingness: Iowa.
I'm just wondering what other country all of us have to move to if Obama or Clinton wins the Presidential race here. Any ideas?
In researching whom to vote for, I was quite surprised by what I learned about Mike Huckabee, such as his record of being soft on crime and that he is listed with Hillary Clinton on the list of TOP TEN MOST CORRUPT POLITICIANS for 2007: www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2007
There is animal cruelty in his family: www.newsweek.com/id/78241
Info from Huckabee's skeleton closet, including his record of releasing violent criminals, can be found here: www.realchange.org/huckabee.htm
He may be an ex-preacher, but I believe actions speak louder than words.
The editors should be more careful in selecting headlines. Obviously Christians (of all denominationsand poltical persuasion) are the majority of voters in the US and McCain has received their votes. If the article is about conservative Christians, republican Christians, and/or evangelical Christians, then the adjective is important.
Huckabee is the only true Christian choice. check out this score card from Wall Builders:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/downloads/newsletter/VotersGuide.pdf
I don't understand why 45% of Christians say they support Huckabee yet apparently aren't showing up at the polls. If all the Christians in this country would vote for the most conservative, most experienced, most personable, most articulate, most determined, most God passionate candidate, Huckabee would be sweeping this country in the primaries instead of fighting to keep from being ignored. Christians need to stop listening to the media and start listening to their conscience. Huckabee STILL HAS A CHANCE. It is a long shot, but it is this country's only shot. We cannot miss. We cannot give up until the very end. The cost is way too high. Everyone that says they prefer Huckabee needs to get over to mikehuckabee.com and make a donation and/or start making phone calls. We need to start supporting him with more than just wishes. Wishing won't do it. Actions will. Please..
On the Illinois Senate floor, Obama was the only senator to speak against the baby-protecting bills introduced by Patrick O'Malley in 2001. I remeber hearing about Jill Stanek as I was driving through Chicago. If I remember correctly she was fired from the hospital.
Jill Stanek, who was a nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., testified in the U.S. Congress in 2000 and 2001 about how "induced labor abortions" were handled at her hospital.
"One night," she said in testimony entered into the Congressional Record, "a nursing co-worker was taking an aborted Down's Syndrome baby who was born alive to our Soiled Utility Room because his parents did not want to hold him, and she did not have the time to hold him. I couldn't bear the thought of this suffering child lying alone in a Soiled Utility Room, so I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived."
Thanks for the link Harold.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970974/posts
As a Christian it is impossible to knowingly support Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama is the MOST pro abortion candidate...Obama even supports infanticide!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970974/posts
A vote for Obama or Clinton means....(imagine the changes to occur)
legalization of marijuana possession
abortion on demand enshrined in law for all 9 months
same-sex marriage legalized
nationalized sociallized medicine
legalized euthanasia
embryos killed for research purposes
human cloning supported by tax dollars
exponential tax increases across the board
more pork projects and government spending
weaker national defense
terrorist rallies in support of Obama or Clinton presidency
premature pull-out of Iraq leads to terrorist filling in the vacuum
Bill Clinton's 3rd term of presidency
more scandals and corruption
nation-wide Clinton fatigue
THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES HAVE GIVEN US TRIPLE GAS PRICES, MORE PEOPLE FALLING INTO POVERTY WHILE WORKING LONGER HOURS, LESS PEOPLE WITH AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE, WHILE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND BIG OIL WALK AWAY WITH RECORD PROFITS. A TERRIBLE WAR IN IRAQ, AND A DECIMATED MIDDLE CLASS.
AS SOMEONE WHO USED TO VOTE REPUBLICAN, THE PARTY THAT GAVE US THE GREAT DEPRESSION, I AM GOING TO WISE UP AND VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT WHO AT LEAST AKNOWLEDGES THAT THE MIDDLE CLASS DOES EXITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
This pole is whacked.
Obama wants to change the USA to USSA (United Socialist States of America).
McCain has received a “0” score from Planned Parenthood. He is not nearly as liberal as Obama. Obama has already cost the government 200 million dollars in ear marks. He has already promised to raise taxes. He wants to redeploy our troops to invade Pakistan, which we are at somewhat reasonable relations with. He has “0” executive experience and very little congressional experience. Although McCain does not support a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman, he did however support the defense of marriage amendment. Obama is far more the social liberal, as The American Conservative Union score card reveals:
Obama
2006 – 8
2005 – 8
Years – 2
Life Time Voting Record – 8.0
Clinton
2006 – 8
2005 – 12
Years – 6
Life Time Voting Record – 9.0
McCain
2006 – 65
2005 – 80
Years – 20
Life Time Voting Record – 82.3
The purpose of the "Rating" is to inform the public, in as unbiased a method as possible, exactly where individual Senators and Members of the House stand on the ideological spectrum from liberal to conservative.
http://conservative.org/archive2/ratingssummary06.asp