“Obama outspent his opponent 8 to 1 and received billions of dollars in free pr from fellow leftists in the media- yet he beat an aging and inept ‘maverick’ who was simply a democrat-light beltway insider who often dissed his own supporters on the right in order to pander to other Washington insiders in the worthless media and Democrat establishment.”
Don’t forget the coup de grace was by McCain’s own hand – his “valiant” rushing off to D.C. to save the country by eagerly supporting the TARP bill.
It’s not mentioned a lot, especially as blaming the Palin VP choice seems to be the popular meme (and perhaps it was with some of the swing voters).
But in the weeks between the VP announcement and the bank bailout, McCain’s campaign gained lots of momentum and began to rapidly overtake Obama in the polls – but his foolish handling of the matter took the wind out of the sails. He may have looked good to his peers in Congress, but popular opposition to the bill was fierce and widespread and I suspect kept a lot of people home on November 4th.
