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Originally Posted by liveordie83
McCain lost the race all by himself. We needed a strong leader, and someone that doesn't try to get his votes out of sympathy. John McCain can act strong all that he wants, but after caving in to the party like he did and changing all of his view points over night I lost most of the respect I had for him. Now don't get me wrong he did a great service to our country, but he sold his soul to get the republican nomination. How much do you think he would have sold ours for?
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The only way a Republican would have won would be if Hitler himself was the democratic nominee, and even then it would have been close. McCain was going to lose because Bush was extremely disliked for the majority of his presidency, once the grace period from 9/11 wore off.
Personally, I think expectations of Obama are so high that he's doomed to look bad. At this point, I think the only thing he could do to meet expectations is rise up to heaven on a burning chariot.
As for the debate on why he won, I think all those things had to do with it. It may seem superficial, but hey, America is a superficial country. The Kennedy/Nixon debates taught us that. There are many things that go into a person winning an election, and all those things have their part.
People love eloquent speakers. Obama is as eloquent as they come. I remember a poster that was hanging in my English class at school, it said the right voice at the right time saying the right things can change the world. If I remember right, the poster featured three people, JFK, MLK, and Hitler. All have that in common, they were eloquent speakers who said the right things to the right people, and thus people flocked to their cause. Obama had that as well.
People wanted change. Obama looked and preached the part. He was different from people's perception of Washington. He was young, black and good looking. Because of race and age, and he could capitalize on that. The Republicans saw a small bump when they went with the same strategy in Sarah Palin. It didn't last, of course, because Palin is more or less a nut, but people wanted to see something different and she had a different look. Now his choices for cabinet don't really espouse change that much, but he's in his grace period.
The media loved the guy. There was a study that showed it fairly well that the media gave him more positive coverage. He was presented better and people look at things like that.
He's of the opposing political party, which was his best weapon. The Republicans chose a guy who had a reputation of being a maverick, one that the Democrats were, for once, effectively able to squash. But it didn't matter who they chose, they had the least popular president in recent years in the White House. They were going to lose.