The Senate vote on McCain’s eligibility was a scam. Even Obama who voted on it knew it was to be used for overturning an election result in case McCain/Palin won. Their argument would have been the same that hangs over Obama i.e. McCain was ineligible because he was not born on USA soil but actually on Panama soil. I realize this doesn’t seem to jibe with Obama’s vote in the Senate. However, I believe at that point he would do a turnabout to overturn McCain’s win and with what the courts have been doing as of to date he would be in.
I don’t believe the senate vote was so obama could have a mccain win overturned. He would have had to prove his own citizenship to do that. The purpose was so when obama won he could point to mccain and say “He wasn’t born here but the senate ruled he could run. Therefore my victory was legit.”