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**nvideoe** · 03-04-2011, 12:31 AM

I don't know how you figure that. Wasn't that decided in the Democratic primaries, which if memory serves are separate from the Republican ones?

Hmmm....McCain was installed what...4 months before the Dem primary was wrapped up? As soon ans the Dems knew who they would be facing they went into Obama overdrive. He'd managed a pretty good showing in Iowa and then blew Hillary away in South Carolina. After the SC primary it was pretty obvious that Obama was going to pick up at least 125% of the Black vote and bring hundreds of thousands of new voters to the polls so Hillary backed off for the good of the party.

If ever there was an engineered campaign it was 2008. McCain sat on the sidelines while Hillary and Obama nudged each other without taking any real swipes. Heck, the only point at which things got a little dicey was when it looked like Palin was going to draw a chunk of the female voters.

03-04-2011, 12:31 AM	#24
nvideoe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 489 Senior Member	I don't know how you figure that. Wasn't that decided in the Democratic primaries, which if memory serves are separate from the Republican ones? Hmmm....McCain was installed what...4 months before the Dem primary was wrapped up? As soon ans the Dems knew who they would be facing they went into Obama overdrive. He'd managed a pretty good showing in Iowa and then blew Hillary away in South Carolina. After the SC primary it was pretty obvious that Obama was going to pick up at least 125% of the Black vote and bring hundreds of thousands of new voters to the polls so Hillary backed off for the good of the party. If ever there was an engineered campaign it was 2008. McCain sat on the sidelines while Hillary and Obama nudged each other without taking any real swipes. Heck, the only point at which things got a little dicey was when it looked like Palin was going to draw a chunk of the female voters.
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