re: #275 captdiggs

Not likely. The country was going to vote Democrat - the economy was going against the GOP, 8 years of GOP in the WH, and McCain didn’t do nearly enough to separate himself from Bush, and Obama was a fresh face that was out-mavericky the maverick, and he was bringing the hope and change in a way that McCain could only dream of. McCain was running against history - and the history of how election cycles work. Ridge might have helped, but wouldn’t have closed the deal. Lieberman wouldn’t have helped.