[SmokingJoe]

“Unfortunately the Limbaugh his plan was too clever by half and has backfired”

Nope,
Operation chaos worked fine.
McCain ended up getting a lot of votes from PUMAS. Sadly for McCain, his anti-Republican bashing over the past 8 years, and his vote for the “bailout” etc, ended up costing him a lot of Republican votes.
In the end, McCain defeated McCain. Had nothing to do with Rush. No radio show host can elect a bad candidate who is not prepared to do what it takes to win,

[MilspecRob]

McCain ended up getting a lot of votes from PUMAS.

What all 1000 of them. PUMA's were a pipedream

[firebrand99]

Exit polls showed that Obama did better among women in 2008 than Kerry did in 2004 so no evidence that the PUMAs had any impact; just the opposite.