[Tribune7]

" I think McCain tried to win, and I think he probably played his hand as best he could. Even in 2007, it was pretty much expected that this would be a Dem year. "

So you think when I said "it" I meant McCain?

[OKSooner]

Yes, of course. If you had meant anyone other than McCain, you would have named names in your original post.

I mean, when have most of the pundits NOT "expected it to be a dem year"? That's a given.

I'm still trying to understand how you give more credit for McCain's defeat to some of us who post here than you give to John McCain himself. That goes a long way to explain it; John McCain deserves none of the credit because he just went along with the herd, "expecting 2008 to be a dem year". Otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned his name, and no one else's, in post number 46.