Barack Obama’s first and most grievous mistake was to make the campaign about himself.

And now thanks to the MSM giving him the lion’s share of exposure, he’s also transformed the election into a referendum on himself, when as Wretchard pointed out, it was originally supposed to be a referendum on Bush, with McCain as Bush’s proxy. Instead McCain is now merely the incidental figure to the Obama Referendum of 2008, and he just might ride that obscure distinction all the way to the White House.

The “people” became the mere backdrop for his mass rallies.

Why do I suddenly have the strong hunch that Obama’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field will turn out to be his Dukakis-in-the-tank moment, only multiplied by at least an order of magnitude?