Worst Campaign Ever?

Let me get this straight, he was behind, he picked Palin, he caught up & even moved slightly ahead, then he atcs and speaks completely irrational on the economic meltdown and somehow he lost because of Palin? You ain't too sharp for a Princeton guy. McCain lost because of McCain, period.

Everyone needs to move on. Obama won, the majority of the American people have spoken. We need to pull our heads out of our collective bums and deal with it. Life is too short.

MINE EYES HATH SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD.........

MY EYES HATH SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD..............

You tell'em Zydo! McBushpalney had nothing to do with the loss. Poor baby was a victim of circumstance. Besides McBushpalney did get all the real American voters. That's all that really matters.

And by the way- if all pure capitalism has to offer is the further enrichment of the few, then maybe socialism isnt such a dirty word. Ive been through Canada many times, and they are obviously less stressed, happier, and enjoying life. The same with my young european friends who aren't even from wealthy countries, yet receive free university and health care, and have five weeks paid vacation each year.
We get near slavery and maybe, maybe the carrot of two weeks paid vacation. And health care- what a joke.

You have it wrong. Palin was a good pick to energize her base, but she was radioactive with the left (which your newspaper represents). McCain was decisively ahead in the polls in mid-September, his mistake was voting for the $700 billion bailout. That package contained a huge amount of pork-barrel spending, something which McCain was against. Yet he voted for the bill. Had he voted against it, it still would have passed--but then he could have lumped Obama and Bush together (both for the bill), while he is on the side of the people and against pork-barrel spending. Had he done that, he would have won--easily. None of the other factors you cite are important.

Am I the only one who caught that Obama lied on national television to "Joe the plumber"? Obama told Joe that he wouldn't raise his taxes. The next morning on the news, they announced that his business was worth approximately $280,000. Obama said he was only raising taxes on companies that were worth more than $250,000. I've been out of school for a while now, but I'm pretty sure $280,000 is still more than $250,000! And yet America elected him anyway, so don't come crying to me when he doesn't do what he said he would. He lied, America saw it, and elected him anyway... now that's bravery!

The biggest question that now remains is will the GOP candidate in 2012, assuming there is one, be allowed into the debates? We could see a splintering that is beyond belief: The Christian Right develops their own party and the surviving GOP center develops into another. This is not outside the realm of possiblity. The Christian Right has not been the base, it has been more of an anchor around the neck of the party ... pulling it down ... and the party has finally drowned. The two major parties in 2012 may well be the Democrats and the Independents. Then we will have the GOP, Greens and Libertarians as small splinter groups. Maybe the GOP can reconstitute itself, but as what? There just isn't any there ... there.

To Politics Girl; To bring Palin into the Political mix was disrespectful to American Women to think that we would vote for someone like Palin just because they combed her hair and adorned her in a $150K wardrobe. In a sense it was like saying, "Well they voted for George Bush 4 years ago and he is insipid, they may just go for this and vote for Palin even though she is an idiot". Maybe it was the Hockey Moms and Joe Six Packs that convinced McCain to add Palin to his team.

The comment "The campaign got so out of control that a man at one Palin rally yelled "Kill him!". has been disproven by the secret service. Zelzer should know this. Many of his other observations are probably correct, but I wonder if our liberal and biased media had spent as much time investigating Obama as they did investigating everything they could about Palin if the results would have been different.

To Politics Girl; To bring Palin into the Political mix was disrespectful to American Women to think that we would vote for someone like Palin just because they combed her hair and adorned her in a $150K wardrobe. In a sense it was like saying, "Well they voted for George Bush 4 years ago and he is insipid, they may just go for this and vote for Palin even though she is an idiot". Maybe it was the Hockey Moms and Joe Six Packs that convinced McCain to add Palin to his team.

Wow- I just have a b.A. in History, and i support Obama (so far), but anyone could run circles around this professor's argument.. The best professor I ever had constantly repeated the "follow the money" theme, and its no different here. Yes, barack obama is charasmatic and fresh, idealistic and hopefully will help steer our country in the right direction. But having five times as much contributions by renouncing his vow to take public financing is really why Obama won. if McCain had followed suite, instead of sticking to his own pledge, he evry well might have won. Five times as much contributions to work with, and Obama won by 2%. Follow the money, friends.