Not surprising! This is what happens when you tick off the base, they refuse to support you or work for your campaign. McCain is getting his own poke in the eye, I wonder how he likes it? <\/p>\n
Richard A. Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, today released the results of a true random poll of 1,000 conservative activists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. CPAC is the nation\u2019s largest annual gathering of conservatives, and was chosen by former Gov. Mitt Romney as the place where he announced his withdrewal from the GOP presidential race on Thursday.
\nThe first question asked of the 1,000 conservative activists was: \u201cIn your opinion, is Senator John McCain a true conservative?\u201d<\/strong>
\nThe results:
\nYes 197 (19.7%)
\nNo 595 (59.5%)
\nUndecided 208 (20.8%)
\nThe second question was: \u201cIf Senator John McCain is the Republican nominee, I will\u2026\u201d
\n<\/strong> The results:
\n299 29.9% \u201cstrongly support McCain\u201d
\n279 27.9% \u201cI will vote for McCain, but do not expect to work or contribute\u201d
\n35 3.5% \u201cI will vote for the Democratic nominee\u201d
\n90 9.0% \u201cI will vote for a conservative third party candidate if one is on
\nthe ballot in my state\u201d
\n40 4.0% \u201cI will not vote\u201d
\n257 25.7% \u201cI am undecided at this time\u2014I need to see if Senator McCain
\nreaches out to conservatives in a serious and meaningful way\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nIt’s not just that conservatives won’t vote for him, it’s that they won’t contribute money, their time and their effort to get him elected. He can reach out to liberals all he wants but will they contribute to his campaign? Will they go door to do and get out the vote? Will they man phone banks? McCain isn’t going to get the support that the Republicans have been counting on over the last 8 years. And he only has himself to blame. He knew that he would run for the presidency in the future, why didn’t he think about that? Did he really think that we would vote for him anyway? He should have realized in Nov. 2006 that we might not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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