[itsahoot]

Your job, as a national candidate, is to sway the 20 to 25% “in the middle” voters who:

Vote McCain!!!!!!!

[NVDave]

McCain lost the election in one moment.

When he cancelled his campaign events to rush back to DC to bluster and BS about the financial crisis - about which he knew (and still knows) less than nothing - he was done.

That, coupled with McCain having assembled an idiotic team of Dole retreads... sealed his fate. McCain ran for no other reason than “it was my turn” - something the GOP is famous for.