An honest analysts would also consider how it was simply unnecessary for Barak Obama to take any risks in the crisis because he was protected by the media.
The study must explain why McCain inexplicably shrank from exposing the tentacles of corruption which embraced Obama and his Democratic gang extending all the way back through Acorn to Fannie Mae. The writer should note that, because the media stonewalled any attacks on the Obama myth, no exposure of the Democrats' corruption could break through unless McCain himself made the case personally and forcefully. The book will detail how McCain persisted in his detachment even as the polls made clear the inevitability of his defeat.
He is not starting a fight he cannot win.
It is an unfortunate fact of life for Republicans.