Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Why What Happened Happened

http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/17590/

[TitusOneNine] 5 Nov 2008--There are a lot of reasons, but in my view the main ones are these:

An unpopular President who has not been effective.

An unpopular war that was poorly prosecuted, especially early on.

A gigantic financial crisis right at the height of election season.

John McCain ran a poor campaign.

Barack Obama ran a very good campaign.

I was struck by two headlines on the New York Times website after the election results were declared....

Related article:
http://www.kentucky.com/676/story/581007.html
Obama saw an opportunity — and positioned himself to take it - kentucky.com

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