The extreme money advantage helped Obama. McCain’s horribly run campaign helped Obama. The financial crisis and McCain’s reaction to it helped Obama. The so-called feel good idea of voting for the first AA president helped Obama. Bush fatigue and Obama’s “hope and change” helped. But I still don’t think that all of that would have saved Obama if the media had vetted him. He was able to get away with being as he put it a “blank slate” that people could complete according to their desires because the media was completely in the tank for him. They purposely didn’t do their job in making the American public aware of what Obama was really all about. If they had, the “blank slate” and the “hope and change” mantra flim-flam would not have worked. The generally low information voter was intentionally kept that way by the media.
And one of the critical factors in that was the threats Soros made to Fox. Keep your eyes and ears open and you may hear more about that, though not from the state-run media including Fox.
2008 was not an election; it was a coup.