While I hate playing the game, "What if?", here is a good piece on how McCain's campaign fell to pieces. It's really a shame too. I never thought a moderate/independent could/would shift so radically to one side in order to attempt to win a Presidency. McCain may ultimately go down in history as the Henry Clay of the late 20th, early 21st century.
On a side note, it's really interesting to see how the social conservatives hi-jacked the party so strongly in the past 10 years. Essentially they are responsible for McCain losing the 2000 primaries. Additionally, their stubbornness to adhere to such a stringent code of social conservatism has essentially driven out the rest of the members of the party. Their anti-intellectualist tendencies led to the state of current University teaching staffs being overwhelmingly Democrats, and the strict adherence to making social issues strongest eventually drove out the banking industry, now either made of libertarians or fiscally conservative democrats.
Nothing more on the World Series until its over. I may issue a death warrant on Bud Selig.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/29/mccain_2000/index.html?source=rss&aim=/news/feature
--Knuttel
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