I like Obama. I actually volunteered for his campaign. I spent about 80 hours helping the month before the election.
McCain made two huge mistakes. The first being Palin. I know why he did it. Obama had just won the primary and he wanted to get some of the female voters that were pissed Hillary didn’t get the nomination. That is why Palin wasn’t vetted. They had to hurry.
The second being clueless on the economy. This line sunk him:
“there’s been tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street and it is—people are frightened by these events. Our economy, I think, still the fundamentals of our economy are strong. But these are very, very difficult time. And I promise you, we will never put America in this position again. We will clean up Wall Street. We will reform government.”
That was days before he suspended his campaign to deal with the banking crisis. Also a huge mistake.
And I will once again add that TARP (bank bailout) was done before the election. That was all Bush.