Your 65 percent demographic figures consist of Reagan Dems who are already voting Republican and have been for years and independents who want to seem moderate and aren't. A lot of response to those questions is how you want to be perceived, but you only pay attention to what you want to hear.

And that negative campaign ad thing works. Wanna know why? Because McCain can't run positive ones. Not because he's evil, but because positive ads gin up support and enthusiasm for a candidate. R's don't have that for Walnuts, so he's got to run negative to help himself. If he ran positive it would have zilch of an effect on the electorate.