It’s no surprise 0bama won; both candidates were campaigning for him.
Exactly.
The McCain-Palin ticket was stick-a-fork-in-it theater, from its conception. There was no moral difference between McCain and Obama, in their willingness to please themselves, at America’s expense, if that’s what it would take.
Obama was far more ideological and more charismatic about presenting it than the bitter curmudgeon McCain, who was an enigmatic of sorts with a gallows darkness about him, whether he was a genetic misfit, or an experiential result from being a POW.
His family and his staff cleaned Palin’s clock, probably furious that she had agreed to run with the traitor. The two had nothing in common, but he needed a prop and for some reason she was too damned willing to bite.