The game is on. And voters have two very different candidates to choose from to be our next president. John McCain and Barack Obama presumably won because they were the strongest candidates of their respective parties, but both men have issues they’ll have to overcome if they want to win.
Exit polls from the primary season show that both candidates’ problems start with the economy – the number one issue for voters this election. McCain and Obama failed to get even half the votes from people worried most about the economy.
When it comes to Republican John McCain, he has his work cut out for him. He never got strong support from the traditional Republican base – people who strongly oppose abortion, are born again or evangelical Christians, or support tough actions against illegal aliens.
Also, even though McCain gets high scores for “experience” – a quality only about 25% of Republicans were looking for, more want a candidate who shares their values – and McCain only managed to get a quarter of them.
As for Obama, he hasn’t scored well among working-class whites and Hispanics – getting only about 1 in 3 of each of those group’s votes. He also has to get the backing of white Democratic women who heavily supported Hillary Clinton. And, there’s the question of race, and whether it will keep voters from supporting Obama. As for voters over 65 years old, that’s the age group where Obama was the weakest in the primaries and where McCain did best.
Here’s my question to you: What are John McCain’s and Barack Obama’s greatest weaknesses?
Interested to know which ones made it on air?
5 comments:
Obama's weekness is lack of experience. There is also the factor that he is not really black. He is only 1/6th black and 1/3 Arab 1/2 white. I would feel more comfortable if he was 100% black and he had a few years of experience in the Senate or House.
McCain's weekness is that he is a military man and he thinks like one. Those of us who have grown up in military families understand some of his statements and what they mean, but I don't think everyone does. Example being: What matters isn't when the men come home, it's how safe they are."
He is thinking of the fact that we have military men stationed throughout the world, but not all of them are under fire. If our men are in Iraq and Afghanistan, but not in danger, it wouldn't matter. They don't all have to come back to the states...just be safe.
Obama, frankly scares me. His inexperience and associations make me very apprehensive.
recently it has been obama obama every where. i believe both candidate should be given a chance to debate in the eyes of the public so that we can really know their views. mc cain as a military man will always need to take decisions the military way. we dont realy know which of them are good for us. i will like to be enlaitained more on both candidiate
I think that the Saddleback Church forum did that to a degree. Fox News also did a very fair history of the backgrounds of both candidates. I am sure they are both available at http://www.foxnews.com
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why is abortion always the issue in US political atmosphere. lets leave abortion to the church or mosque to discuss. if you feel you are doing wrong in aborting ,well,and you that does feelis right. abortion to me is no issue. so both candidiate should leave that issue alone. i still will like the two candidate to talk more on housing and health matters.Ruth you said mc cain weakness is that he is a military man. i dont get that aspect of it.
The issue of abortion goes to the very heart of a person's character. If you are pro-choice then you do not hold life in the highest of esteem. Barach Obama is on record as pro abortion. He believes that it is Okay for a mother to kill her baby in the womb. The reason that it is so important is that if this is okay, what is next? Infanticide for babies born with defects, or old people that have become a burden on society. There has to be a line drawn in the sand and as Christians, we draw it here. Someone has to stand up for the unborn and the helpless. If laws about this were not being legislated then it wouldn't be an issue, but it is. As one who believes in God, I would think that this would be important to you. I know there are some Muslims that believe in honor killings. This too, is wrong. I know not all Muslims believe this way, but it too is something that people should be concerned about. To me this is more important than how much money we are making. People who care about human life are less likely to go to war. Life is precious, a gift from God and we should support that point in any way we can.
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