> avogadro wrote:
> its also not as simple as people voting for someone because of their race, but for example, Palin's inexperience wasnt forgivable but Obama's inexperience was forgivable, why? because he's black.
ok, i am so sick and tired of people throwing out the race card. the fact obama is black at best, at BEST got him another 3% of votes from heavy african american communities. it doesnt matter that hes black, please point out an aa community that regularly votes republican.
Palin's inexperience wasn't forgivable because when she went on national tv in front of potential voters, she made herself look foolish. Obama is inexperienced true, but he just finished running the most organized well done election campaign in my lifetime.
McCain lost for multiple reasons
bush managed to lose a large amount of the republican faithful in recent years
his campaign focused on the wrong areas
from all the republican politicians he could have chosen as his vp, he chose the governer of alaska. it appeared to be a brilliant move at first glance, as theoretically it would gain the hillary supporters.the problem is for the first time in history, the american public managed to see through the obvious, realized she was an idiot, and voted for the lesser of two evils.
many people doubt McCain will live another 4-8 years, he needed a strong vp behind him to gain more votes (if you look at statistics of polled individuals you will see the age of the candidates was actually a bigger issue then the race) i know they aren't fully accurate, but it is believable