2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMcCain lost by 10 million--- Romney by 5 million
this is probably why McCain is so angry right now-----he looks at his service record in the political spectrum, dwarfing Romney's---and also looks at his other credentials and is astounded by his loss being so much greater
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)who ate the strawberries. But he'll get there.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)He's seeing the duplicate key to the wardroom icebox.
Yeah he will.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Many who voted for Romney didn't bother voting for McLame because they thought a black man would never win. Clearly, they figured differently in 2012. Also, the President probably didn't attract quite the novelty vote in 2012 that he did in 2008.
Oh, well, suck it up, Gramps. You're still better off than you were in the Hanoi Hilton.
VPStoltz
(1,295 posts)W. won (stole the election) by a little over 3 million in '04 and he had a "mandate" that every Con bowed down to.
Go figure.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)and has spent the past twelves years growing increasingly irrelevant.
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)He managed to make it as far as he did because of his legacy despite all of the mistakes he made.
democrattotheend
(11,605 posts)Last time I checked he had about 400,000 votes to go.