Obama/Biden (Democratic): 421 EVMcCain/Romney (Republican): 117 EV2008 was the worst environment for an incumbent party to run in since 1932 and the GOP Ticket of McCain and Romney would have been crushed because no one could get excited about that. Palin, despite the myths, saved the perennially unlikable McCain from the above scenario. I could see McCain/Ridge or McCain/Lieberman (which I think were the top two choices of the senile Arizonan) winning four or five states, so Romney was probably the second best choice after Palin.
Too many McCain staffers have decided to spin the fact that they could not run a campaign by blaming Palin, whom all the hopes of the campaign were pinned on, for losing the race. The fact is McCain was selling a ketchup Popsicle and Palin was almost able to sell it to the American people. That's some talent that one has to be born with.
