We dodged the bullet of Palin and McCain's bad judgement of picking her.

[Lord Orwell]

oddly enough they are also considering Newt Gingrich as a 2012 candidate. What a joke.

In a contest like this though, the truth is simple: The most money spent gets you the presidency. Mccain's campaign was broke for a long time and his campaign suffered horribly for it. When he picked Palin he picked up a large group of deep-pocketed supporters. However it was too little, too late. If you look at the electoral map and track who campaigned where and how much time they spent there, it's pretty obviously a one to one relationship: The more money they spent in a state campaigning (people going door to door, putting out signs, personal appearances, etc), the larger the share of the electoral votes they got. Obama spent a fortune in the colony states, and carried every single one of them.

One final note on the maverick status of john mccain: Look up the washington dc vote. Nationwide, he received 46.1% of the popular vote compared to Obama's 52.6% yet in Washington he pulled only about 5% of the vote. Sounds to me like he was a pretty big toe-stepper.

Also look at the county-by-county voting map. I think it is pretty obvious who pulled the majority of counties. Obama merely focused his effort on those places that had more votes to give.

Now compare that with the state-by-state map. There are a few states Obama pulled maybe 5% of the counties but he pulled the populated ones.

The fact is: Obama is extremely inexperienced and has never lead anything. His job as a senator was to do the will of the people and follow. Mccain has multiple years of military experience with leadership experience. Obama's own VP said that we're going to get a major incident in the first month or two after election. And i don't know how this plays into it, but for some reason Al Queda endorsed him as president. Is it because they know he's the weaker leader? We'll see.