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| Posted by: Angry Conservative |
11/7/2008 8:59 AM |
A lot of people are Monday Morning Quarterbacking as to why McCain lost, so I figured I'll throw my worthless opinion into the matter. Ultimately, he was the accidental candidate. He was never able to excite Republicans and more importantly conservatives, and so fewer actually showed up at the polls. Don't believe me? See what the American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate says about voter turnout (man that's a mouthful to say):
"Compared to 2004, Republican turnout declined by 1.3%"
The two big (and arguably best) Republican candidates were Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. I'm not sure what happened to Juliani's campaign, it sorta fell apart, but Romney was swimming in money. He was running a great campaign, when suddenly Mike Huckabee entered the race and split the conservative vote and so the moderate or "Maverick" McCain won. This really disheartened the base, meaning that most conservatives were not only discourage but some didn't even go out and vote. Even with Sarah Palin's pick as VP, we still were ultimately discouraged. McCain was definately not the conservative candidate.
Which really makes me wonder, how well a Giuliani or a Romney would have done against Obama. Guess we'll find out in 4 years...
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Re: Why did McCain lose? |
By deedoubleyou on
12/3/2008 11:09 AM |
The media really got into voters' minds that McCain would be similar to Bush, which is not completely true, and its too bad that a lot of people don't care enough to actually look at the facts. Also, Palin's inexperience was even greater than Obama's, and I think that played a huge role in the outcome of the election.
CNN had a study of the candidates' campaigns and it showed that McCain was leading a more negative campaign than Obama.
Ultimately, I believe that it was the choices McCain made while running that lost him the presidency.
I this case, I completely agree, the Republicans could have won this one..... if they would have had a different candidate who made better choices.
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