[WilliamReading]

This is the best analysis of the 2008 Presidential Election that I have read so far.

[Spktyr]

You know what puzzled me about this election? Not once did I see or hear of an ad that said: "Are you better off now than before the Democrats took control of Congress two years ago? If not, here's why. " Not once. Why????

[hflynn]

Who best to analyze why McCain was doomed from the start than the people who engineered his nomination?

[lonestar]

I think McCain could've, should've talked about the part that Democrats played in the mortgage mess and gas prices.

Bush has done things I don't like BUT he wasn't responsible for Freddie and Fannie --and now we have the same people who engineered the mess supposedly making corrections?! --with taxpayer $$$$.

That's what makes me really mad---the Dems cause all kinds of problems and the Repubs turn over and play dead!

Why didn't McCain run against the Dems in Congress who have a lower approval rating than Bush? Oh, I forgot---he's one of them!!!

[mrsmith]

Any analysis that doesn't start at the huge financial advantage Obama had... well, it's for small children.

Adults know better.

[kabar]

Pretty superficial analysis if you ask me. McCain's mistake was he did not make the election a referendum on Obama, one of the least qualified, least experienced candidates ever put up for Preident by a major party. Add to that Obama's cocaine use, radical Marxist, racist, associations, and failure to release information about his past, any other candidate other than McCain could have won.

Instead the Reps put up the oldest man ever to run for President for the first time, the party maverick who held very similar positions as Obama on such issues as immigration, climate change, drilling in ANWR, etc.. Is it any wonder why the Reps did not turnout for McCain? Even in McCain's home state, AZ, Bush did better than McCain winning more votes and by a bigger margin over Kerry than McCain did over Obama. Rep voters did not turnout for the self-described maverick who campaigned against his own party.

[Reagan Man]

Well, duh.

[ishabibble]

Very true. No GOP candidate could have overcome the blatant brainwashing of the American public by the MSM over a period of 8 yrs. I totally blame the media, the lost and wandering child of abuse, for what we are faced with now.

McCARTHY WAS RIGHT 20008!

[Revenge of Sith]

And that was always my view too. This was a Democratic year and I liked those pundits who said as early as January that the Democrats should go out of business as a party if they can’t win this election. There was nothing McCain and Palin could have done differently that would have changed the outcome.

[Paladin2]

McCAin was doomed until he was talked into picking Palin, then the bailout/panic came along and that’s how we got where we are.