And they really believe it was Bush and the banks who brought on the Wall Street meltdown and foreclosed on peoples homes... the DBM told them so.
The inability to explain the FM/Dem role in the scandal was McCain's biggest failure of his campaign. Instead of getting on tv and immediately countering the Dems lies and putting the blame where it belonged, he AGREED!!! with the Dems that it was "greedy" bankers aka Republicans who caused the meltdown. It was only later that McCain, ineffectually, linked the Dems to the scandal. Too little, too late.