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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
Two biggest things are:
1) The economy. If this meltdown never happened the election would be dead even.
2) Palin. He always talks about "country first" and that was his strength, but picking Palin showed he was a fake. If he was truly "country first" he would acknowledge his age and have picked a VP who was ready to step in without any coaching. That's not Palin and America knows it. He totally destroyed all his strengths when he picked Palin.
If he picked a sensible VP and the market didn't tank, he would probably have been able to eek out a victory by a slim margin.
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Originally Posted by kane
I think he was all over the map then eventually he went dirty and the undecided voters responded poorly to them then when the economic crisis hit he fell apart and Obama put him on the ropes and hasn't let him off.
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Going dirty is especially bad when you PRMOISE not to do it. Combine that with the quoted material above you and America saw how insincere and fake he was.
Besides all McCain can say is "Vote for me I'm less sucky than the other guy" That's not a real strong message. If McCain was really the better guy then he could tell me what HE is going to do not keep telling me about what the other guy is going to do. Every strong candidate has a message I may not always agree with that mesage but they have one. McCain is all over the place. He has no direction. Is that how he is going to governen?