[rabscuttle385]

Ouch.

[Hawk1976]

Yep, McCain needed more than a three day strategy. You see John McCain thought we think the senate has any honor.

So he didn’t get the message that he needed to pound at Barrack’s associations, once he is defending himself on one, move to the next one and don’t quit. Then he would be on his way to the white house.

But, no, no, who wants to do that. Instead John will hang out in the Senate with the liberal twins Harry and Dick.

[Darren McCarty]

Why did he lose the center?

"It's the economy stupid"

[LiberConservative]

The “W” cheerleaders were the “center-right”. And we have the election results from 2006 and 2008 to prove it.

[neverdem]

bttt

[goldstategop]

If you don't run as a conservative, you lose the middle. Just ask Chris Shays.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[rmlew]

What did those idiots in the McCain Campaing, NRSC, and NRCC think would happen when they decided to allow the left to define th eissues, especially the economy?

It'll be news when Rick Davis and these other schmucks commit seppuku. Until then, they are spitting at me and calling it rain.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Article]

According to exit polls, Barack Obama won moderates by a whopping 21 points on Tuesday, 60-39 percent. That more than doubled John Kerry's nine-point margin over George W. Bush among moderates in 2004.

And yet Bush was widely recognized, even reviled, as "too conservative". More conservative than McCain, for the most part, esp. on social issues.

So what's up with McCain underperforming a more conservative campaign with the centrist voters?

Sounds to me like the writer doesn't understand the question.