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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon
I don't think so. We're talking about an underexperienced black socialist-sympathizer with former terrorists as friends and a wife who doesn't like the country and a pastor who calls damnation upon the country and who knows what all else. McCain should have won handily.
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McCain's choice to not exploit those things was a mistake, but as I said, the media was burying the stories anyway.
The only reason Wright became such an issue was because the guy wouldn't shut up and he forced media coverage.
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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon
The economic crisis is just another indication of a strategic mistake by McCain's camp. Everybody knew the economy was unstable. He needed to go with a VP with wall-street cred, not main-street cred. He blew it big time.
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Americans were predisposed to blame McCain, via Republicans, for the economic crisis. McCain didn't handle it well, but Obama did nothing except stand still and stare, and still benefited.