uh, what republicans do you speak of? SOURCE??? thats what i thought. also, are you seriously calling an election in '08 right now? that's rediculous, no matter which side you are on- thats more than two years from now. i will guarentee that damn near everything is going to REALLY change by the time of the next presidential election.
texsox said it best. if the election were tomorrow, mccain, being a soft republican, would beat anyone else, hands down. if you think that kerry got slammed with the flip-flop (justly deserved, by the way), you aint seen nothing yet for hillary. hillary might win in NY, and even the northeast, but she has got LOTS of work to do in the midwest to win more than one state (MI), and she doesnt stand a chance in the sunbelt (counting FL). she'll get CA, OR, and WA (WA maybe), but shes going to have a damn hard time with the other mountain region states as well. conversely, mccain is from the west, and is widely liked there. he's a war vet who was tortured in the hanoi hilton, which will get him tons of votes over hillary, who was dyking it out at welsely at the time and calling vietnam vets baby-killers. mccain stands a decent chance of grabbing some coveted west coast states (but not CA), and he also has a good chance of grabbing some NE states that lean a little to the right, such as PA.