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Posted at 3:30pm on Mar. 4, 2008 For McCain or Against the Dem? We need provocation!

By Mark Kilmer

I watched last night's episode of Hannity and Colmes on FNC, and I was eager to hear why Frank Luntz said the lines of his focus groups went where. He had a focus group of Texas Republicans, most of whom disliked John McCain but less so than they despised the former First Lady and Barry Obama. A few were going to vote for either Hillary or McCain in today's primary, presumably because some radio talk show host had told them that the GOP would be better off facing this one particular candidate or that. However, almost all of them said that they would vote for McCain.

Is it a vote for McCain or a vote against Obama or Clinton? Most of those in the room said that they would be voting against the Dem. How could McCain change that? Those whom Mr. Luntz asked personally said that McCain had to make his case to conservatives. Luntz asked the entire audience about this, and most of them grunted in assent.

Well, back when many conservatives were angrily disappointed that McCain would be the Republican nominee, and were very vocal about it, I took encouragement from John McCain's line on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows (February 3) that he had a lot of hard work to do in order to make his case to the party's conservatives.

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