Regarding GOP defeat in 2008, I know there are many factors. Some say the GOP candidate wasn't strong enough. Some say it was the economic crisis (which may have been manipulated to BO's advantage by powerful financiers such as Soros and Buffet). Some say it was BO's illegal and untraceable campaign funding from overseas, as well as active voter fraud.
Not far from here is a hillside (near a major mass transit station) which is covered with white crosses, each cross meant to represent an American death in Iraq (and perhaps also Afghanistan). There is a sign there that has a tally of deaths to date. Now that BO is Pres[ID]ent I don't know if the hillside memorial will remain.
Well, for starters, the Obama campaign disabled the Address Verification System (AVS) for credit card donations. This allowed his campaign to play the elaborate shell donor game with wealthy benefactors and foreign interests.
There was an article in the WSJ about a woman in Missouri who received a call from the Obama campaign, asking why she donated nearly 175,000 dollars. The campaign staff informed her that the individual limit was 2,300 dollars.
She woman, shocked, replied that she had never donated to Obama. The campaign staff then explained that they had a donation under her name, her address and credit card number. The woman then called her credit card company to find out what was going on. The credit card company confirmed that their records showed no donations made to the Obama campaign with her card.
That's the kind of crap that happens when a campaign disables the AVS.
Hillary donor Norman Hsu was a rank amateur compared to Obama's backers.
“Why was Soros, with all his millions, unable to accomplish the defeat of Bush in the 2004 elections? What was different in 2008? “
John Kerry.