I think we are getting LOTS of vanities these days.
3) How much of a factor was the money differential?
4) How much of a factor was money from abroad?
5) How much of a factor was campaign finance?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say 'not enough'. Can we please stop with the vanities? FR is not a chat room. Please, please, please find an existing thread and post your comments. People will either respond or they won't. Your 'wonderings' are simply not appropriate for a stand-alone thread posted in the news/activism forum.
The money factor was the biggest, IMO. Coupled with a vest pocket media that wants to be the news instead of report it.
The fact that McCain came as close as he did, with so little money by comparison is simply amazing. He can thank Palin for that, since it was his own maverick reform that created the uneven playing field.
F&F lost us this election horrendously .Fear from McCain’s camp and Fraud. The Ozero’s 30min infomerical hooked the undecideds that were leaning McCain. The Humongous mistake our team did was to just blow that away and did NOTHING to counter it. I hear McCain had a whopping 60 million left in the bank!! GOOD GOD what a bunch of stupid idiots!! I also really believe the moment McCain told that fellow over at the rally that “HE SHOULDN’T BE AFRAID OsAMA” killed any mo McPal was gathering at that moment. There is so much more, but suffice to say that the USSA does have it’s HUGH share of MORON SHEEPLES!
I think if Obama made a few vanity posts, everyone would have turned on him and he would have lost.