Look at history...Only twice in modern history has the party in power for eight years retained power...Truman and Bush 1. The Repubs have held the White House for eight years. President Bush is unpopular with an approval rating of 30 %. Reagan helped his Dad beat the odds. bush can not help McCain. Truman barely won and was an incumbent as Roosevelt died in office. If McCain was a great candidate-like maybe Reagan-he might have a chance, but he is not. The base hates him and more importantly McCain hates the base.
I should say in the interest of being fair, I don’t like McCain. I think he would govern as Arnold has in California-advance a Dem agenda and destroy the Republican Party. However, I may be too prejudiced to judge fairly, but I think this election may be a blowout. The really sad thing is McCain will take down other decent Republicans with him.
Like it or not we are stuck with McCain. For myself I don't like it. But the prospect of Hillary or Obama is too grim to contemplate.
We are screwed again.