I still don't quite believe it myself, as when I remember who stood against him in the Primary I kinda understand how he came through. However, although I remember understanding that Romney couldn't win, several months on I can't quite bring them to mind.
As Kos said a couple of days ago, McCain didn't win the Primary, everybody else lost it before he did. keep to the Fen Causeway
The problem for McCain is that Obama was the Dem who polled well among Indies, for different reasons. McCain has been portrayed as a maverick for years by the press, while Obama's appeal is more cultural -- sort of the flipside of Obama doing poorly with rural whites on cultural grounds. I keep saying that, for all the laughable charges of "black nationalism" and the like, Obama is clearly the candidate of Yuppiedom. (They shop at Whole Foods; he uses an iPhone; Michelle tells farmers in Iowa about getting her shoes from the clearance rack at Ross, etc -- almost stereotypically yuppie.) And a huge chunk of Indies are suburban/exurban yuppies. The McCains can't connect that way. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
