Interesting article...and I agree with it in general.
McCain was a bad campaigner and was too liberal on many issues...and yes if someone other than Palin was the VP pick it definitely would be a 50 state slaughter for McCain
Probably the only problem with the article was that it didnt mention McCain losing the Hispanic vote, 2 to 1, to Obama...when McCain was the more liberal of the two on illegal alien amnesty
media. Media. Media. All again McCain ... Misinformation and negativity from news sources.
re: Hispanic vote
One thing I haven’t seen written about since the election, and it was barely mentioned before Nov. 4, was that Obama was running ads in Spanish that totally distorted McCain’s actual positions (whatever we may think of them), making him out to be really hostile to the Hispanic sector of the electorate. Does anyone else remember anything about that? It’s gone down the Mediascum memoryhole, but that may have been a big factor if enough millions of Hispanics were reached by that message and believed that McCain was hostile to them. I think it was a real Axelrod hit-job that went unanswered, but I haven’t seen too much about it.