As always, he won't win if people don't turn out and vote. Let's never forget losing Florida, and the 2000 election, by only 500 and some votes. More from First Read:
Political analyst Charlie Cook writes that, unless there’s divine intervention, McCain is probably going down to defeat. “Say what you will about the campaign he has waged and the running mate he picked, but the collapse in credit markets and the stock market may very well have ended his chances of victory, notwithstanding anything he could have said or done differently. The senator from Arizona is a good man, who served his country admirably. And many would say that he deserved a better chance than he got.”Why? Why did he deserve a better chance? Did we force McCain to pick a blithering idiot as his running mate? Did we force him to go all Karl Rove and destroy his own brand he spent decades building? Did we force John McCain to flash his anger one too many times? Did we make John McCain erratic?
Why is it somehow unfair to expect John McCain to compete in America as it is? Was it unfair for Democrats to have to win elections in the immediate aftermath of September 11? America has serious economic problems and the country doesn't trust Republicans, or John McCain specifically, on this issue. That's John McCain's fault, and no one else's.
