Worst Campaign Ever?

"They called Obama a socialist, an extremist and even linked him to a terrorist. The campaign got so out of control that a man at one Palin rally yelled "Kill him!"."

1. He is a socialist. You clearly don't comprehend socialism or basic economics.

2. Obama's views on the unborn child are worse than "extremist;"

3. There is ample evidence of Obama's connection to Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. That is, if the newsmedia in America had any integrity to investigate any of it.

No matter. Discrediting and smearing a private cititizen -- "Joe the Plumber" -- was alot more important to our impartial news media.

Shame on you all.

Is the author of this article serious? He really thinks McCain's campaign was the worst campaign ever? Wow. I guess Julian E. Zelizer forgot about Mondale's loss to Reagan in 1984. Mondale only won his home state (MN) and DC, earning him a total of 13 electoral votes. Reagan carried 525 electoral votes. That was the worst electoral defeat since Alf Landon's loss to FDR in 1936. (Landon secured 8 electoral votes, FDR secured 523.) Since both Republicans and Democrats have experienced worse defeats than McCain's, I'm guessing there were some pretty bad campaigns run those years. Oh, and let's not forget Jimmy Carter's defeat in 1980. Carter carried 49 electoral votes and Reagan carried 489. That was the worst electoral defeat for an incumbent president since Herbert Hoover lost to FDR in 1932.

Let me guess: Julian E. Zelizer is a Democrat. Either that, or he's a revisionist historian. Or both. I really don't see how Carter, Mondale, or Landon could have run better campaigns than McCain and lost their elections by wider margins than did McCain. So I figure McCain's campaign couldn't possibly be the "Worst Campaign Ever."

I love how unbiased the media are.

Don't you think it's odd that...after all the money that Obama spent ($100 million more than McCain) and the fact that he was competing with a Republican who was following an encumbent president with only a 25% approval rate that initiated an unpopular war, right after a stock market crash...Obama only had a 6% lead in the popular vote...that means only 6% more people voted for him than McCain. With all the hype about Obama from the media and the polls, don't you think he should have done much better than that?

It was the worst campaign by media with blessings from OBAMA that has robbed the election
from McCain. McCain is a patriot, who duly serving hi scountry & poud of his country.
He ram an honoroble campaign. The biased media which secretly protected all OBAMA's mistakes &
defended OBAMA from McCain attacks and kept on pounding McCain with negative attackes.
The media did the work for Obama.

See the list:

Media & Obama blamed Bill Clinton as a racist. back in feb 08.
Media blamed Hillary as someone instigating assasination attempt on Obama back in June 08.
Media tried to prove that McCain the patriot, was lieing when he said he was on crutches when
released from Vietnam prison., They were trying prove that he was lieing & tried showing video to that effect.
Media killed Palin & abused her at every level, even citing her baby was given birth to by her teen age
daughter. Sleezy media has to be ashamed..
Time wil correct it. I am glad that OBAMA, the first ever African American to be elected president.
McCain too is proud about that in his concession speech.
But when is the McCain blood hungry media will stop their abuse on McCain.,
Understand it is Over. Rachel Madden was mocking now about McCain lost everything and driving his own car.
Why you guys are so inhuman?
For whatever it is worth, News week, NBC and MSNBC you lost my readership & viewership forever..

once the gop disappears from polictical arena then the country can have honest elecitons,where we can disagreed without being disagreeable. the many posters here have shown the truth of my statement. they can not discuss without insults and lies.they can not lose with grace so we the people will continue to voted them from office every chance we get. the sooner they are gone the sooner we can truly become an enlighted nation where thoughts and the exchange of thougths is done with respect.

maybe ill quit my job and join you in the ghetto of newyork living off welfare and complain about opression of the black race
looks like a free ride to me

What the hell is all of this "Christians Rock" and "Christians make up the overwhelming majority in this country, so therefore we are the voice of all" bullshit? I am so sick and tired of hearing from Christians how everyone else is supposed to live their lives. Get it through your bible-thumping, brainwashed minds . . .
MY LIFE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR BELIEFS!
Believe what you want . . . but don't try and make me live YOUR discrimination. The passing of PROP 8 was a total violation of human rights and you Christians and your backing by the Mormom Church is heinous ignorance. For a religion which was formed not but 200 years ago, and practiced Polygomy . . . how are they a viable source of what is "morally" correct in a family setting!?!?
All of that aside . . . a homosexual's life has nothing to do with yours. You still get to believe what you want, you still get to practice what you want, you still can even continue to teach your own children how to discriminate and teach them that homosexuality is wrong . . . but the bottom line is, that it is NOT your place to tell me what to teach my future children, and whom it is OK for ME to marry. It's none of your "goddamn" business! Stay the hell out of everyone else's life, and focus on your own. Passing PROP 8 will not get rid of homosexuals . . . I think in your holy-rolling minds, that you think this Proposition will extinguish gays . . . but you know what? It WON'T. This struggle isn't over, and it won't be over until you hate-loving Christians take off your blinders, and educate yourselves. Stop using your "interpreted" word of God (which is all it is) to perpetuate this pointless "hegemonic" dominance over a group of people who could care less about your beliefs . . . we don't tell you that you cannot be a Christian, so do NOT tell us we cannot have the same rights that you have!
Thank God (yes, because my God is not intolerant . . . but just, and tolerant, and loving of every damn person on this earth) for Newsweek's stance. Republican Christians have done enough damage to last a lifetime. Long live Obama, the first Black President, burdened with the past 8 years of the Bush Administration . . . but full of gumption and the clear-sightedness to get us out of this mess!

First of all, this "article" by Newsweek is a piece of garbage. Only one day from the election and already they are starting with the conjecture. The "kill him" thing was discredited by the Secret Service weeks ago and Newsweek knows this. Whoever it was said "tell him," not "kill him." Newsweek should no better than this, but it is just another in a string of blatent examples of media bias.

There are three reasons McCain lost the election:

1.) The economic crises was a perfect storm happening just a few weeks prior to the election, and most Americans wrongly believe that it was the fault of the Republicans and President Bush. Everyone should get a free macro-economics class so that we can all be a little better informed that that garbage.

2.) The main stream media was completely in the tank for Obama from day one. The ratio of negative ads on McCain vs Obama was extraordinarily lopsided. Wonder why. And, Newsweek has the nerve to say, in the 1st paragraph, that McCain is "loved" by the media. ARE YOU SERIOUS? And, the total whitewash of Sarah Palin was disgraceful.

3.) Money, money, money. Obama went back on his word on using public financing. McCain's publicly financed campaign was no match for Obama hundreds of millions of dollars. Obama bought the election. And, no, McCain's campaign does not hold all the negative cards here, there were negative ads aplenty from the Obama Campaign.

to: texnewmex In your rambling you mention point #2 that McCain had nothing but honor and courage, I guess you don't want to mention that he had a hand in the Keating 5 scandal? Of course not because you would have to add thief and liar to his resume, and then you would not be able to blast President Obama with the same ridiculous claims that your ex-presidential hopeful used. So Senator McCain helped pressure regulators from doing their job. So according to you Bravery and courage simply cancel out the fact that McCain took park in a large public scandal. Where as you folks continue to spout disinformation about President Obama.


You claim that President Obama has been linked with Ayers. He served on an educational board with Ayers. I am sure that if Ayers has not changed his ways and was still this blatant threat to the USA he would have been locked up by now, and that the school board would not have allowed him to be on it.

You complain that no one has looked into where President Obamas campaign money came from. Well I hate to say this but you republicans will no doubt have someone start an investigation about this. It will be just like when you republicans had the Clintons investigated for the ???White Water??? issue. They spent millions of tax payer dollars searching everywhere for some dirt on them. Even though they were found innocent of the any wrong doing in the White Water??? issue, you Republicans still dug and dug and dug for any scrap of dirt you could find. Only to have the famous ???White House blow job??? come up for the only thing you could pin on them. I am sure if you searched into anybodies past you can find something, no matter how trivial to try and smear them with.

I have to say I hope President Obama has Bush, Chaney and all of dubya???s cronies investigated. They gave out no bid contracts to Halliburton several times when that is strictly against policy. There is no telling what other activities they had had their dirty hands into. Not to mention the fact they LIED about every reason they gave for us to attack Iraq. They also lied about leaking information to the press in the Valerie Plaime incident. The investigators traced the leak back to the White House and were stonewalled because it would have been shown that Bush and Chaney were responsible for making the leak happen. They (Bush & Cheney) have done nothing but line the pockets of their cronies with cash, they screwed the American public so they could get richer than they were. Heck you can go back into dubya???s past and there is doubt that he ever served his term in the Air Nat Guard. You can find where Dubya was arrested for cocaine possession, but of course since he became a born again Christian everything is forgiven by you republicans. The fact that no one has any dirt on Obama other than innuendos and supposition drives you Republicans nuts.

What is remarkable is that the election was as close sas it was. McCain made some bad choices, but you are not thinking aabout what his laternatives were. If he did not go negative he lost on ideas. If he picked a moderate running mate the party would not support him. palin was a train wreck, but she got the base off their buttts. Of course getting the base meant losing the center. McCain should have lost by 20% given bush and the failures of the republicon party. Conservatism is a failed ideology. The fact that he convinced enough people that he was not conservaitive to take votes in the middle, and that he was conservative and therefore hold the party faithful in line simultaneously shows that he did not really run that bad of a campaign given his circumstances. The campaign appeaars disjointed because it was really two campaigns for two audiences, just both for the same candidate.

Obama recieved my vote on based on three points. 1st point- Understanding the economy's crisis, shrinking of the middle class, home foreclosures ect. A tax break to middle class increases spending cut home foreclosures and moves the economy, helping to liftit out of the recession. 2nd point- honesty, continued straight forward approach, lack of smear campaign in contrast to McCain/Palin, clear programs.
3rd point- Strong vice presidental candidate. McCain sealed his fate with the choice of Palin. It may have been done to capture the votes of the women, but it was an arrogent mistake to think a women would vote for McCain b/c his VP was a women. The desision I make when I vote does not involve someones gender or race, it involves the content of their campaign. Obama won the race due to a strong, stable campaign that was well thought out for the majority of americans, not b/c he is part black. I am sure that some voted soley due to the color of his skin, they are as arrogent as McCain's campaign people. I see Obama in comparison to JFK. Eager, untainted, optomistic and compassionate, a breath of fresh air.
Congratulations Obama! You will do us well
-Hard working middle class American