Just in case you're simply a newbie looking for discussion, as opposed to a troll...
In 2008, there was no 72 hour Republican blitz. Let me be clear about the straw which broke the camel's GOP's back: McCain's support for the pork ladened bailout package.
We were successfully countering the media's false image of Obama, one door knock at a time; until that point. Voters absolutely resented the manner which the earmarked bill was ram-rodded through the Senate, devoid of debate! The world most deliberate body? My a$$!
Add the House ceding their legislative Constitutional authority to the executive branch, to boot! And it was at that point undecideds became hostile towards GOP canvassers like me. Undecideds understood McCain's support for the bailout was not based upon conservative ideals. McCain was behaving like a Democrat. And each and every day Ohio voters absorbed a mass media created image of Obama.
Thanks to McCain-Feingold limitations, mass media now has unchecked power. Does anybody remember why we opposed McCain-Feingold?
Cheers,
OLA
McCain ended up being hoisted on his own petard.