[gleeaikin]

Unfortunately there were probably a lot of Democrats who hadn’t planned to vote until Palin was added to the ticket. Many Democrats considered McCain kind of harmless but reacted strongly to Palin in a negative way.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

And when McCain went to Washington to "do something" about the financial crisis and ended up just agreeing with the Wall Street cronies that they should be bailed out at the taxpayers' expense, all of the moderates realized he was not the maverick he claimed to be.

Why put another white puppet in office when a black puppet will do the same, and everyone can pat themselves on the back for no longer being racist?