Obama won because he was a transformational and inspiring candidate.
NO Republican could have won in 2008 after the Bush years and the economy.
McCain led Obama in the polls after the 2008 RNC, and since then, his career was on the downward spiral.
http://content.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1839930,00.html
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/barack-obama-man-middle-not-john-mccain-article-1.322314
Bush and Cheney failed to grow a farm system for the GOP.
With all due respect, horseshit. An excellent President, had Shrub been one, could’ve EASILY handed the office off to another Republican. Both McQueeg and Willard were deliberate RINGERS for Zero, working as part of the corrupt, bipartisan Derp State to prevent ANY viable Conservative opponent to Zero (or Hillary, for that matter).
There was nothing transformative or inspiring about Zero. He was a radical Communist and thinly-closeted Mohammadan with no accomplishments and a string of shady, anti-American links and terroristic supporters. He couldn’t deliver a speech without help from a teleprompter. He was aided by a corrupt, subversive anti-American media, radical Hollyweird culture, Big Ed, and the aforementioned bipartisan political combine.
2008 and 2012 would best be described as ‘the Big Fix.’ Had someone like former OK Gov. Frank Keating, a former FBI agent who had pursued Zero’s sponsors, been the nominee, he would’ve reduced Zero to a blubbering mess of slime.