Republican voters, in big shift, favor McCain over his rivals

This is good news for Sen. McCain. I stood by him in 2000, during the criticisms of the Iraq war, during the immigration debate, in his near-melt down last summer, and continue to do so today.

He is what our country needs right now - not the ambiguous "change" message.

My friend Todd Moellenberg, a freshman at the University of Texas - Austin, puts it best:

It's less about his [McCain's] political stances and more about my belief in his genuineness and consistency between his expressed opinions and Congressional actions. It's his steadfast rationality; the fact that he consistently loses popularity when running is because he doesn't shape shift as a candidate. I think every other candidate lacks such a quality, instead pandering to the crude will of the people rather than qualified logic.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/14/america/14poll.php