Re: A green blob for McCain
McCain was effectively doomed from the start. He was a man who most Republicans didn't really like very much, as he wasn't in favour of executing gays and all the rest. There was no enthusiasm for McCain from anyone on his side.
That meant that McCain had to spend an inordinate amount of time and moral prostitution in trying to take them with him, as in the meanwhile the rest of the population became increasingly spectical of the 'Obama is a Muslim terrorist Communist ******' line which McCain ran to stir up base support, along with him chosing Palin for the same reason. Somehow McCain never really found any argument or language to appeal to the centre ground.
To top it all off, Obama spent the entirety of the campaign pandering to whatever he felt he had to do with respect to the centre ground in order to be elected.
Add to that the fact that Obama had a brilliant campaign team, get out the vote operation, and the fact that McCain couldn't run a campaign to save his life and it was not a good year to be John McCain.
It was a sloppily-run, crappy, directionless campaign and from an electoral darwinist point of view it certainly deserved to lose.
Last edited by Marilyn Manson; 7 Nov 2008 at 18:33.
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