Seems to me I remember about 40 years ago, everyone said that Kennedy was going to be the next President and that Nixon should go away.
There is so much similar these days to what happened 40 years ago. History repeating itself.
IMO 2008 will be compared to 1972, Nixon vs McGovern:
Nixon, proclaiming that peace was at hand in Vietnam because of his policies, ridiculed McGovern as the radical candidate of “acid, amnesty, and abortion.” The election took place on November 7, 1972. Nixon won the election in a landslide, with a 23.2 percentage points margin of victory in the popular vote, the 4th largest such margin in Presidential election history.