[ajay_kumar]

You all are seeing too much into this defeat of senator McCain. It is really very simple. GW Bush spent money like a drunken sailor, national debt went from 5 trillion to 10 trillion in 8 years without a single veto from GWB.

Then there was that unpopular war in Iraq run by penny pincher Rumsfeld. To top it all, Americans were allowed to borrow and spend using their homes as piggy banks. That house of cards collapsed just in time to fatally affect McCain.

[indianyogi]

Socialism in America and America could not stop it?

What else America will not be able to stop!

[avacado]

"GW Bush spent money like a drunken sailor, national debt went from 5 trillion to 10 trillion in 8 years...'

Absolute nonsense!

National debt rose about 1.1 trillion under Bush and 1/2 trillion of that was an inherent debt due to the recession decreasing federal revenue from 2000 - 2003. You need to spend some time at the US Treasury website studying the yearly and monthly budget statements of receipts, outlays (on and off budget).

[JoanneSD]

GW Bush spent money like a drunken sailor, that should read like a drunken Ted Kennedy... sailors are not all drunk...

[JoanneSD]

GW Bush spent money like a drunken sailor, that should read like a drunken Ted Kennedy... sailors are not all drunk...

[Red in Blue PA]

Add to this list an opponent which outspent McCain about 3:1 and a media which was in the tank for him, and it is amazing the election was as close as it was.