I ask you this question: What was McCain's biggest mistake in this election? According to the polls, it was his VP choice. The fact that he was a Republican associated with G.W. Bush did not help but he certainly did not choose that. I would rather like to know what you think he did that did not help him win.
He threw out a lot of absolutes and platitudes, but didn't actually do anything to explain how he was going to accomplish them.
ReplyDeleteHe is very old-militaresque style. He has a very black and white, us versus them style of thinking. He wants to commit deeper into Iraq and probably into other middle-eastern conflicts. That also doesn't fit well into the post-modern society that has emerged over the last 20 years, give or take a decade or two.
He also had practically no international support (except Al Queda, who supported him. No, I'm not joking heh.)
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ReplyDeleteHaha frankly there was just very little he or any Republican could have done to win after George W. Bush. Throw in the fact that he's old, crippled, and boring and Obama is young, energetic, and charismatic, and it was a no-brainer.
ReplyDeleteTo summarize my post, McCain of any Republican had the best shot at winning because many people saw him as a moderate, so he had a good chance of making it close (I still think he was bound to lose). But Sarah Palin killed his bid because she took two of his strongest arguments away: experience and foreign policy. It's hard to gauge when McCain actually started falling far behind in the polls because he received the usual convention bounce, and those bounces usually last for about a month for whoever had their convention second. I can say this though. There is strong evidence that the nail in the coffin, according to the polls, was the day after Sarah Palin's Katie Couric interview. Not the day after Lehman brother's declared bankruptcy, which occurred four days later, but the day after we got to see Palin in full form. So, Sarah Palin, along with other factors, was what ultimately lost the election for John McCain. Choose another running-mate, and this election would not have been a landslide victory for Obama; it maybe would have been within 20 electoral votes either way.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I don't know yet. I would actually lean toward YES, but I think he's gotten a huge pass not on media coverage (he's gotten plenty of that), but simply on what has been coverage.
ReplyDeleteWhy can he not come forward with a birth certificate for goodness sake? Why did he spend 20 years in a church with a racist/hateful pastor? Why can't he give a straight answer on abortion? Why does he deny a background in Islam when he clearly has one? Why choose the biggest TFA critic as his top economic advisor? Why does his wife seem to have written some very hateful things about the country that his given her every opportunity available? And most of all, why are the tough questions not being asked by the mainstream media about Obama?
Sarah Palin was actually the only one who brought life to an otherwise dead campaign. Anyway, my 8th grade history teacher summed up Presidential elections best: the best looking candidate always wins:) Kinda holds true, eh???
ReplyDeleteI dunno, I thought both Gore and Kerry were better looking than Bush. Although Bush had that sense of Machismo that Gore lacked. I kind of wonder were it came from though, heheh.
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