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The Republicans could have put up the second coming and promised people free money, and they would probably have lost.
That is the legacy of Bush.
From this side of the water, it looks like the problems were:
McCain was old.
Palin was incompetent and probably corrupt (or at least prone to nepotism and undue influence), this only mattered because of McCain's age - so people have a real beief that he might die in the net 4 years.
Bush was looming over it all.
The campaign was negative.
But a lot of it was about getting the vote out. The Democrats won the popular vote in 2000 and 2004, but the republicans won the college each time - there was no way on God's earth that the Democrats were not going to mobilise and get every conceivable vote on the poll this time.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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