Worst Campaign Ever?

Through this article, Mr. Zelizer proves one of the points conservatives have ben making for a while. He is probably teaching all this gobblydeegook to the students at Prnnceton too. The choice of Sarah Palin was a brilliant move on the part of the McCain campaign. One has only to look at the numbers of people who showed up at her rallies (I was at one in Va with 25,000 people) to see that, as well as his poll numbers (before the economic turn). The "negative" campaign began with Mr. Obama's thrashing with Hillary Clinton in the primaries and continued on through his next opponent. With his consistent jabs at President Bush, Obama even slug mud at those not even in the race. The #1 problem with McCain was quite superficial, he had little charisma, yet another element Palin brough to the ticket. The #2 issue was the economy. McCain would have won this election had he voted against the bailout and used that issue to show his independence and belief in listening to voters. The #3 issue was failing to educate the American public on the leftist, liberal record of Obama and his cronies Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, etc. This was a HUGE tactical blunder to spend all that money and time on Bill Ayers, someone most of us knew little about before the McCain ads. Hats off to the McCain-Palin ticket who almost pulled it off, in spite of 90% of the media leaning left and biased "reporting" of media shams like MSNBC, NBC, Time and, yes Newsweek. I did not vote Obama yet will now support the will of the American people and President-elect Obama, and pray for him and our country and it's leaders on a daily basis. I encourage all to do the same. God Bles America.

To isaiditfirst. Joe the plumber didn't own a company, didn't have the financial resources to buy a company or even have a plumbing license to practice plumbing in his state. Now who was lying?

Lets not whitewash how despicable his campaign was either. McCain ran a very nasty, dirty, negative and on occasion bigoted campaign that focused not on what McCain would do as President, but on the fear of an Obama administration. McCain made a choice of the type of campaign to run, and he chose a campaign of fear and hate and he paid the price because the majority of Americans are far more honorable than McCain was.

The only reason Barack won was that young voters who know nothing about the economy or taxes yet voted for him.Blacks Who have never voted before voted for him just to get him in with no thought s of anything else. He has no experience and the Democrats are just going to use him like a puppet. Congress is just going to try to push things by him because of his inexperience.

Why don't you tell it the way it REALLY happened. Obama is black. Millions of black voters voted because Obama is black. Had he been white, this election would have went the other way. Black people are racist. That's a fact. Palin was a good choice to attempt to gain the female vote. The skin color together with years of bad Bush government made it very easy for Obama to win. If I were the democratic candidate, I would have won this election.

THE MEDIA went wrong for McCain. Liberal media saying the entire time that "Obama would win" is what drove the conservative voters away from the polls, thinking that the race was already won.

I hope everyone is ready for a socialist, partial-birth abortion-voting President.

I will submit to him because God tells us to, but I don't agree with his views at all.

CHANGE IS FINALLY HERE.
Don't fear change America, embrace it.

Concerned Parent: how can you say Palin has great moral values? She became pregnant as a teen and unwed, her daughter became pregnant as a teen and is unwed, her husband belonged to a group that wants Alaska to cecede from the US and which she has spoken at their convention, has hunted animals from helicopters, and was baptized at a questonable church. There is so much more but think about these for awhile.

I notice all the blacks on this thread think this is about pay back and not what's good for the country. That's about the level of ignorance that we will have to deal with the next for years.

I would like to know why a man that was born in Kenya is our President?

Perhaps this loss will serve as a wake-up call for Republicans -- Stop pandering to the Christian right. They do nothing for this country. They are angry, ignorant, bigoted people who have really hamstrung the party. Maybe now you will pay more attention to your moderate voice and stop this crazy love affair with a group of people who belong in the Dark Ages.Christian right. And maybe this will serve as benchmark, or rahter a shut down of thos epeople. Had McCain picked a moderate, like Giuliani, this may have been a much tighter race. But it's a great day for America, and maybe we will finally get in line with the rest of the free world who keep religion out of their public lives. WB

Hey, Whiteandproudofit, You talk about ignorance but cannot even spell the word Four? It???s the next FOUR years, not the next FOR years. So please shut your racist mouth, you embarrass the rest of us white folks.

Yeah, where have you been. NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN never let up on McCain or Palin. We had too much coverage on the cost of her wardrobe that you almost made us forget the dems had a guy running that announced his campaign from a convicted terrorists living room. Had illegal relatives in the country giving money to him, which I believe is illegal. Kept all of his relatives on welfare while he sucked millions out of the country. And slept thru 20 years of sermons from his spiritual adivsor and the one that supposedly Baptised his family. But at least his wife is proud of her country now, where ever that is. But the best one of all you left off was the righteous rev. Wright asking God to damn America. And God being faithful as He is, did so on 11-04-08. Great job journalism guys. You bought your man in. Now we, the working stiffs of America will have to pay the bill. Welfare is looking better and better.

The statement "The campaign got so out of control that a man at one Palin rally yelled "Kill him!". has been disproven by the secret service that is on record as saying it never happened. Many of the other observations seem correct, but if the biased and liberal media had spent as much time investigating Obama as they did Palin, the outcome might have been somewhat different.

McCain's campaign mishandled Palin almost from the start. She got more traction for the campaign than he did. The left was largely successful in distorting her as unqualified and unintelligent - qualities more ascribable to Obama and Biden than to her - due to McCain's bizarre approach to limit her exposure to leftist and hostile press outlets. The left plays a foolish game in marginalizing her.