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Title: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Citizen James on April 23, 2009, 03:51:11 PM
Like the title says (http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/04/22/minutemen-founder-to-challenge-mccain.aspx)


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Chris Simcox, an anti-illegal immigration activist who founded border watch group the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, will announce today that he will challenge John McCain in the GOP primary in Arizona.

He probably has little to no chance, but I bet there's a lot of hype over the contest.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Lunar on April 23, 2009, 03:53:31 PM
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=95154.0


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Barack Hussian YO MAMA!!!! on May 08, 2009, 01:52:17 AM
Like the title says (http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/04/22/minutemen-founder-to-challenge-mccain.aspx)


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Chris Simcox, an anti-illegal immigration activist who founded border watch group the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, will announce today that he will challenge John McCain in the GOP primary in Arizona.

He probably has little to no chance, but I bet there's a lot of hype over the contest.

I wonder what percent of the hispanic vote he will get ?


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Zarn on May 09, 2009, 08:32:21 AM
Saw you sig. I don't like JFK. So there.

Anyway, this had already been posted. McCain is going to win it, easily.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Lunar on May 09, 2009, 07:59:48 PM
Simcox isn't quite a joke candidate, he does have an outside shot.  I find his website interesting visually, since he didn't hire the traditional DC people for it and I spend a lot of time working with campaign websites.

http://www.simcoxforsenate.com/index.php?p=youtube

He's not a crazy demagogue, speaks of middle-class values, and is speaking in a fairly nuanced, articulate way.  Even when asked how he'll win the general election, he realistically points out that the Democrats aren't going to run anyone serious against John McCain. He claims it's not a single-issue campaign, but I assume it'll just be immigration and TARP.  He'll have a lot of money from his contacts nationwide, but McCain has a lot more of them.



Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Lunar on May 09, 2009, 08:29:10 PM
http://www.johnmccain.com/

Actually, McCain's reelection website is even cooler, as long as you don't leave the homepage but that's because he's hired people to criticize the normal model that DC designers create.  If you leave the homepage, it starts to become a bit of an eyesore since it emphasizes 90 degree angles, white boxes on a black background, normal blue links, and unappealing blocks of text.  His homepage figured out that you shouldn't have solid white backgrounds with blocks of text, kind of weird that everything else didn't.  I expect this to change.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: justfollowingtheelections on May 12, 2009, 03:03:57 PM
According to a Rasmussen poll:

50% of Arizona Republicans feel McCain is out of touch with the party base.
43% approve.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/states_general/arizona/50_of_gop_voters_in_arizona_say_mccain_is_out_of_touch


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on May 12, 2009, 09:29:18 PM
According to a Rasmussen poll:

50% of Arizona Republicans feel McCain is out of touch with the party base.
43% approve.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/states_general/arizona/50_of_gop_voters_in_arizona_say_mccain_is_out_of_touch


This is not surprising since almost all GOP voters feel betrayed by there leaders in Washington.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Lunar on May 12, 2009, 10:35:02 PM
I don't know, you'd have to compare those to the baseline numbers that the average primary feels their Washington candidate is "out of touch."


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Nym90 on May 28, 2009, 07:28:31 PM
I believe Simcox=CARLHAYDEN. :)


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Governor PiT on September 27, 2009, 06:22:34 PM
Hey guys, please check out my recent interview with Simcox.

http://www.freedombroadcastnetwork.com/default.asp?JumpToType=2&JumpTo=/menu/fbn/mof/mof_main.pdv


I think he has a very good shot at defeating John McCain.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Hash on September 27, 2009, 06:28:59 PM
Hey guys, please check out my recent interview with Simcox.

http://www.freedombroadcastnetwork.com/default.asp?JumpToType=2&JumpTo=/menu/fbn/mof/mof_main.pdv

No.

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I think he has a very good shot at defeating John McCain.

No.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: JohnnyLongtorso on September 27, 2009, 06:34:53 PM
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_AZ_925.pdf

McCain defeats Simcox 67-17 in the primary.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: pogo stick on September 28, 2009, 11:25:08 AM
Like the title says (http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/04/22/minutemen-founder-to-challenge-mccain.aspx)


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Chris Simcox, an anti-illegal immigration activist who founded border watch group the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, will announce today that he will challenge John McCain in the GOP primary in Arizona.

He probably has little to no chance, but I bet there's a lot of hype over the contest.

I wonder what percent of the hispanic vote he will get ?

his illegal immigrant workers may vote for him.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Small Business Owner of Any Repute on September 28, 2009, 01:46:24 PM
If he's doing interviews with Stark, I think you can write off his candidacy right there.

Still, I hope Democrats nominate someone who isn't a total embarassment—some two-bit state rep or something—just in case.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: JohnnyLongtorso on September 28, 2009, 05:34:17 PM
If he's doing interviews with Stark, I think you can write off his candidacy right there.

Still, I hope Democrats nominate someone who isn't a total embarassment—some two-bit state rep or something—just in case.

I think some guy on the Tucson City Council is running. He'll probably be the nominee at this point.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Lunar on September 29, 2009, 05:21:39 AM
McCain has become a straight-line conservative since the election, it maximizes his influence since he still has a decent sized email list and seems to be able to get onto any news show he wants to be on.

You could probably propose the immigration bill he himself had sponsored in the past and he'd vote it down.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Eraserhead on September 30, 2009, 09:50:25 AM
If he's doing interviews with Stark, I think you can write off his candidacy right there.

This made me laugh a hardy laugh for some reason.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Хahar 🤔 on October 01, 2009, 09:03:54 PM
Like the title says (http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/04/22/minutemen-founder-to-challenge-mccain.aspx)


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Chris Simcox, an anti-illegal immigration activist who founded border watch group the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, will announce today that he will challenge John McCain in the GOP primary in Arizona.

He probably has little to no chance, but I bet there's a lot of hype over the contest.

I wonder what percent of the hispanic vote he will get ?

his illegal immigrant workers may vote for him.

Breaking:

Non-citizens don't vote.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Tetro Kornbluth on October 02, 2009, 06:32:41 PM
Like the title says (http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/04/22/minutemen-founder-to-challenge-mccain.aspx)


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Chris Simcox, an anti-illegal immigration activist who founded border watch group the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, will announce today that he will challenge John McCain in the GOP primary in Arizona.

He probably has little to no chance, but I bet there's a lot of hype over the contest.

I wonder what percent of the hispanic vote he will get ?

his illegal immigrant workers may vote for him.

Breaking:

Non-citizens don't vote.

Not legally anyway.


Title: Re: minuteman founder to challenge McCain for senate seat
Post by: Sensei on October 03, 2009, 12:18:41 AM
Stark talks like that kid in every kindergarten class that gets reprimanded for eating paste daily.