“Barack Obama, an utterly unqualified, not-so-closeted Big Government socialist in the European tradition was able to trounce McCain. The reason primarily was that Obama was more likable.”
I disagree. There were two reasons Obama won.
First. The MSM did everything possible to help Obama. They continually lied about him and covered up his past. They continually talked about how smart Obama was. They engaged in character assassination against Sarah Palin.
Second. McCain ran an absolutely terrible campaign. It was the most incompetent campaign I have seen in my lifetime. Either McCain’s staff was deliberately sabotaging his campaign and working for Obama or they are totally incompetent.
Without the total support of the MSM for Obama and the total incompetence and/or sabotage of McCain’s staff McCain would have won easily.
Either way, not mutually exclusive.