I am no fan of McCain, but it does actually surprise me that he has run such a lousy campaign. I think people mistakenly compare elections and in this case the McCain campaign took the wrong lesson. McCain based his campaign on having been a POW and having foreign policy experience. He had tremendous support in the press, and thought he could keep that support no matter what. He failed to adapt to changing events, in part no doubt, because of his self confessed ignorance of the economy, most likely due to lack of interest. McCain and his advisers had one tactic - attack, attack, because basically they are bereft of ideas about how to deal with the economic crisis. His ideas - tax cuts for the rich, less government, and less regulation. Where have we heard this lame brain ideas? Yeah, aren't those the same brilliant ideas that brought us to the precipice? This is not the replay of the 2000 or 2004. This election is different because change is actually possible, unless of course the repugs manage to steal this one.