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Originally Posted by Daniel_
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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From the same side of the water, I wholeheartedly agree. I had been saying that the Democrats would win this time, since talks started up about elections again.
No way would they "win" twice, and still lose the seat. No way would the Republicans talk themselves out of the mess that they created over the past 8 years.
I started getting worried when they seemed to actually do this very thing, so I'm glad to see that it did fail in the end.
I'm not sure you've seen the last of Palin though.