Aside from the Mike Church comments that McCain was the same as Obama in many cases and THAT was the problem, here is what I think the problem was:
1. Elderly fear of Social Security/Medicare reductions. Obama promised freebies, but McCain never could make the message that they are not sustainable.
2. The MTV youth came out in droves to vote for Obama. The majority of youth votes are ignorant of economics, the perils of big government and socialism. They have no idea of history, thanks to our lousy school system (which teaches sports and how-to-get along instead of traditional academics). McCain COULD have explained how there will be fewer jobs under Obama because of his tax and trade poliices, but he didn’t. McCain was supporting the same lie that Obama gave — we can return jobs to the USA. THAT IS A LIE. LABOR COSTS TOO MUCH AND THERE ARE TOO MANY ENVIRONMENTAL RESTRICTIONS AND COSTS. So, taxpayers have to make huge subsidies to UNION corporations to produce inefficient goods.
What a totally bungled message by McCain. Obama promised jobs, free healthcare, bailouts, etc. Hard to compete with UNLESS you got back to the Reagan Revolution.
So, according to Toomey’s article, sounds like these swing voters disagreed with Obama on most issues, but voted for him anyway. Wow — that cult thing is a powerful magnet.
LOL!