re: #211 pianobuff
Nearly any dem would have won. Hell, an actual donkey would have likely won this last cycle as long as it wasn’t Booosh.
I don’t believe Obama brought anything tangibly special in terms of objective vote-getting, and that’s based on my read of the vote totals, which were a lot closer than I would have suspected.
Despite the full court press and managing his image, he’s polling near the bottom of his class of peers at this point in his term.
He was in the right place at the right time.
I’m not sure any Dem would have won. He had to do a lot of things right -or at least “not wrong”. However he got those Independants (or if McCain/Palin simply lost them), he got ‘em.