McCain was winning right up until the economy tanked. Now I know Romney is a pretty smart guy and has a lot of experience dealing with finance, starting companies, creating jobs etc. But I'm pretty sure that he isn't capable of making the entire economy tank.
No, but he was the MSM pretty boy of choice, and he did nothing but sabotage the McLame/Palin campaign with his remarks.
Bishop Romney’s agents, staff, friends, and their spouses
attacked Gov. Palin FOR ROMNEY.
So how is Obama working out for all you RomneyBOTs?
Maybe not, but he did advise Bush and McCain to go along with TARP...... and before anyone denies it he admitted it on CNN Wolfe Blitzer’s show.
McCain was never really “winning”. in the RCP averages, he managed to climb to a 2.8% “lead” (within the margin of error) on 9/8, and then he collapsed again. This is typical “bounce”. There were less than a dozen polls out of a hundred in which McCain lead at all. The RCP average was “tie” by 9/17, and McCain never lead again — he never lead above the margin of error, and only lead from 9/7 through 9/17.
The average on 9/18 was identical to the average before the Democratic convention, which means the race stayed pretty much flat not counting the bounce for each candidate from their conventions.
Of course, most of the Palin negative stuff came out her first week, and McCain’s numbers went UP after that. So to the degree someone wanted to argue that McCain’s polls were affected by the attacks on Palin’s family, the effect was positive. After those stories receded, his polls declined (I don’t think the polls moved for that reason).