http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22170
This is a good piece by Elizabeth Drew. As I recall she wrote a puff book about McCain, but she too, joined the vast legion of disappointed McCain lovers. Among other things in the article, she refutes the notion that without the financial crisis Obama would not have won, and I agree. She points out that even though McCain had a bounce from his convention and pulled ahead in polling in the popular vote, Obama was never behind on the electoral map. I know someone who worked on the Obama campaign for a long time, and she said they never paid attention to the polling of the popular vote, but solely concentrated on the state by state polls. The conventional wisdom that states that the financial collapse caused the victory, takes away from what caused McCain to loose - empty policies, erratic behavior, irresponsible vp pick, etc. the list is long. It makes it seem that poor old John was at the mercy of events that he had no control over, which is far from true. He ran a horrible race and it is all his responsibility. Happy Thanksgiving!!!
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