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Originally Posted by Ferd
Mike, honestly we can look at this thing and see mistakes and missteps. I yelled at the television in all 3 M/O debates because I had better answers than McCain almost every time.
but the reality as far as i am concerned is, if this set of mistakes were not made, we would be talking about other mistakes.
The mistakes only matter for the loser. But McCain was never going to win. Not without massive mistakes by the democrat.
Obama neither made massive mistakes nor did the media do its job to explore his history.
American Elections are alway referendums on something. This was at first a referendum on George Bush and the Republican party with 60% not happy.
Then it was a referendum on Barak Obama on wheither or not he is capable of holding the job. he has done nothing to suggest he cant.
This election was never about what McCain was or was not doing.
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I agree with all of that except just the minor point that I think the logisitics of the McCain campaign have been a disservice to John McCain. The last I heard he's actually campaigning in Maine???????this weekend. He wasted time in New Mexico last weekend.
I agree that historically, a 5% margin could be considered decisive. I think that if Obama's going to claim some sort of mandate like W. did he has to win at least 300 electoral votes.
You're exactly right that given the climate right now with GWB, John McCain had an uphill battle from the get go. I couldn't agree more that this election could have gone two different ways. If it was about GWB and his policies, John McCain was going to lose. If it ever turned into an election about Barack Obama, Obama was going to lose. Obama had a lot of help from the media and he also had a change of fortune when the economy went south and McCain never fully recovered from that.