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Looks like McCain will take the GOP nomination

mccain-clinton190.jpgCertainly that’s how Intrade bettors see it. They also think Hillary is the 2-to-1 favorite for the Democratic nod.

Not sure why McCain is only a 1-in-3 shot for winning the White House. That looks like a good bet to me — not that I’m a betting person….

If Dems are smart, they’ll make climate a big issue in the general. Not sure they are that smart, though. I’ll blog on this later.

McCain would almost certainly push some serious action on climate change. Yes, he’s been going a bit wobbly of late and he thinks nuclear power can do more than in fact it can — and he certainly wouldn’t be as good on the issue as Clinton or Obama — but this still represents a huge leap forward for the climate.

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Sanchez v. Sanchez

Chris Matthews interviewing Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) who’s supporting Obama just noted that her sister, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) is supporting Hillary Clinton. I’ll note that it’s pretty uncontroversial that Linda is the more liberal of the two. Maybe both sisters are just mixed up, but I don’t think so.

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Less Jobs, More War

Good clip courtesy of Think Progress:

Oddly, though, McCain keeps picking up the votes of Republican primary voters disgruntled with the Iraq War despite being, in reality, the candidate most fanatically devoted to the cause.

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Stages of Grief

NRO‘s Michael Graham, an orthodox anti-McCain conservative, is pretty amusing as he tries to reconcile himself to McCain getting the nomination. Expect much more of this in the near future. Meanwhile, it’s interesting to see McCain kissing Huckabee’s ass in his victory speech . . . could be VP material. If you squish Huckabee and McCain together, the combination looks more like a regular Republican than either does on his own.

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Scarborough: McCain’s Platform Is ‘Less Jobs And More Wars’

During the coverage of this evening’s Florida primary results, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough discussed the impact of John McCain’s victory with Pat Buchanan. The Republican establishment will rally around McCain and say “he’s the guy,” Buchanan said, but he cautioned that McCain’s vision for America was foreboding.

“What does he say? The jobs are never coming back, the illegals are never going home, but we’re gonna have a lot more wars,” Buchanan said of McCain. Scarborough remarked that McCain’s “inviting” presidential platform for the fall consists of “less jobs and more wars”:

BUCHANAN: Here’s a guy, basically, what does he say? The jobs are never coming back, the illegals are never going home, but we’re gonna have a lot more wars.

SCARBOROUGH: We’re gonna start a lot of wars! He has promised, for the record Keith, John McCain’s platform — and it certainly looks inviting for the fall — he has promised less jobs and more wars. Now that’s something we can all rally behind.

Watch it:

While campaigning in Michigan earlier this month, McCain said some Michigan industries cannot be resurrected. “I’ve got to give you some straight talk: Some of the jobs that have left the state of Michigan are not coming back,” he said.

And just this weekend, McCain told a crowd of supporters, “There’s going to be other wars. … I’m sorry to tell you, there’s going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars.”

UPDATE: Matthew Yglesias writes, “Oddly, though, McCain keeps picking up the votes of Republican primary voters disgruntled with the Iraq War despite being, in reality, the candidate most fanatically devoted to the cause.” More here.

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Romney as Outsider

I feel like Mitt Romney’s outsider, anti-Washington message on display right now in his speech is a pretty good message. And as I’ve said before, I think he’d be a better president than John McCain (see also Poulos’ endorsement). There is an opening here for someone to point out that McCain is a kind of empty suit — a heroic biography followed by an extended legislative career that’s been long on Sunday morning show appearances and short on worthwhile accomplishments.

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McCain, Clinton win Florida primaries.

CNN and AP announced that Sen. John McCain (R-FL) will win Florida’s Republican primary election. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) also won the state’s Democratic primary, although she “will receive no delegates to the national convention” because of the state’s “scheduling dispute with the national party.”

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UPDATE: NBC News reports that Rudy Giuliani is set to drop out and will endorse McCain tomorrow.

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Stuck in the Middle With Mitt

The really bad news for Mitt Romney here isn’t really that he lost to John McCain. Rather, the problem is that Mike Huckabee is staying in the race, while Rudy Giuliani is dropping out and will presumably be endorsing McCain soon. In a head-to-head race it’s quite possible to see Romney consolidating anti-McCain sentiment and winning. But if Huckabee can keep his fanbase, that lets McCain win primaries in conservative states without the need to secure majorities.

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