Why McCain lost
November 11th 2008 06:10
Do you want to know why John McCain lost the election last week? It's not a long or complicated answer. You don't have to hire a team of analysts to figure it out. Are you ready? Here it is:
McCain lost because of the economy.
That's it. The economy was McCain's undoing. Even in a year where the GOP was less popular than a lip fungus, McCain, a Republican, was leading in the polls before the economic meltdown. Check the polling history if you don't believe me. The economy hit the skids and the McCain campaign was toast. It wasn't negative ads or Iraq. It wasn't Sarah Palin. It was any of this identity politics nonsense. No, it was the economy. Here's something to mull over: If the economy was booming right now, McCain would be the president-elect. It isn't and he's not. The economy tanked and took McCain's chances down with it. Folks simply trusted Obama and the Democrats with the economy more than McCain and the Republicans.
Unfortunately for Obama, he has inherited this economic mess. If he can't improve it, he could easily find himself in hot water in the 2012 election. The goodwill will be gone. The Kool-Aid dispensers will be empty. He has some leeway in the short term, but that won't last long if things don't get better. He campaigned on change. If the economic environment doesn't improve, he'll have serious problems in four years. The party holding the White House takes the blame for bad times. That's the way it is and that's the way it always will be (fair or not). Obama has a chance to make things better now. He'd better do so if he wants to win in 2012.
McCain lost because of the economy.
That's it. The economy was McCain's undoing. Even in a year where the GOP was less popular than a lip fungus, McCain, a Republican, was leading in the polls before the economic meltdown. Check the polling history if you don't believe me. The economy hit the skids and the McCain campaign was toast. It wasn't negative ads or Iraq. It wasn't Sarah Palin. It was any of this identity politics nonsense. No, it was the economy. Here's something to mull over: If the economy was booming right now, McCain would be the president-elect. It isn't and he's not. The economy tanked and took McCain's chances down with it. Folks simply trusted Obama and the Democrats with the economy more than McCain and the Republicans.
Unfortunately for Obama, he has inherited this economic mess. If he can't improve it, he could easily find himself in hot water in the 2012 election. The goodwill will be gone. The Kool-Aid dispensers will be empty. He has some leeway in the short term, but that won't last long if things don't get better. He campaigned on change. If the economic environment doesn't improve, he'll have serious problems in four years. The party holding the White House takes the blame for bad times. That's the way it is and that's the way it always will be (fair or not). Obama has a chance to make things better now. He'd better do so if he wants to win in 2012.
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Comment by Lester Caudill
Round Politics
They still are attacking her to this day, and why, because she poses a threat to them and they are afraid of her. They really should be afraid of her she is coming in 2012 for the white house. How would a ticket of Palin/Romney, or Palin/Huckabee.
Comment by PopulistConservative
Angry Electorate
I agree about Sarah Palin. What they've done to her is unforgivable -- and that includes these Republican weasels who are now leaking trash about her to tear her down. It's disgusting. The unfortunate thing is that you don't get a second chance to make a first impression. I worry that her image is successfully tarnished as long as the media continues to rip into her. It'll be hard for her to have broad enough appeal to win a general election (in my opinion). I don't want Romney or Huckabee, though. We need new, fresh, and younger faces. I like Bobby Jindal from Louisiana. I hear good things about Paul Ryan and Mark Sanford. There have to be some good candidates out there, though, who can take the GOP into the future. Sarah Palin may be in the mix, but she'll have a near impossible task as long as the media is obsessed with demeaning her.
Comment by S.L.
The Political Brief
Comment by PopulistConservative
Angry Electorate
Comment by S.L.
The Political Brief
Til then, we have to deal with the same idiocy. It's a sad commentary on our voters that we elect the problem causers to be the problem solvers.