“Ah, those mythical “internal polls” that perdicted Juan McCain’s victory in 2008.”
Until the scare tactics of the financial markets manipulation delivered the election to Obama a month or two before the election, McCain/Palin had it in the bag. Once people felt sufficiently threatened, and McCain couldn’t articulate a plan for anything other than “business as usual”, he was sunk. Up until that point, any Obama supporters I knew assumed Obama would lose (and it was close enough to indicate that was the truth).
I doubt that McCain won have won in 2008 under any circumstance. A third-term in the presidency for any party is a historic rarity - Bush 41 was the first time (other than FDR) since 1928.
That said, the magnitude of McCain’s loss would have been considerably smaller without the financial meltdown - ironically caused by the RATS from the beginning. And several senate races would have been salvaged without the McCain undertow.
Once the meltdown occurred, the voters saw McCain as a mumbling, bumbling old man who couldn’t string 3 coherent sentences together and knew nothing about the economy.
Until the scare tactics of the financial markets manipulation delivered the election to Obama a month or two before the election, McCain/Palin had it in the bag. Once people felt sufficiently threatened, and McCain couldn’t articulate a plan for anything other than “business as usual”, he was sunk. Up until that point, any Obama supporters I knew assumed Obama would lose (and it was close enough to indicate that was the truth).
BINGO!