The way you put it is not the way I would have said it but this is essentially the issue that put me on the fence as someone who would otherwise be a solid McCain supporter. McCain has traditionally been a good supporter of free trade so I had assumed he understood why. The idea of using government money to keep an asset bubble inflated was totally absurd. Even more damaging in my opinion that the protectionist ideas Obama flirted with his primary. 

While McCain gave a great acceptance speech, his airings on economic matters during the debates was rather worrying to say the least. 

Not that I had a vote but that alone would have been extremely close to losing it for me. 

KingBingo

I'm with ya and ready to take back the colonies, mate!

So why is it the only good speech mccnain has done this entire election was after our country voted in obama? 

I'm a Florida boy who finds that bothersome, but I'm a lapsed civics teacher and support the idea of changing over to a 5-member executive council instead of this king-for-a-while crap. We only need a solitary exec if *Congress* declares war. Y'all should have your own regional rep on the council, no questions about New Yorkers or Texans moving your cheese, or mine.

It was taken from the 'exit polls', probably.

As it turns out, California had a ~2/3 majority for Obama. And with 55 EV (is any state higher?), that pretty much gave it to Obama. Hawaii was even higher, at 75%.

(I find it rather funny that a few 'key' states are mentioned, but CA is left out - even though CA has the most EV.)

If the actual count refutes the projected count, you can be sure that it will be noticed.

But, ya, I know what you mean. I live in CA. It was a couple seconds before 8PM here (poll closing time) when the banners went up for Obama.

Personally, I think it was a setup from the beginning. McCain's concession speech was his best moment of his entire campaign. It seems like he was just itching to lose, from beginning to end. He seemed dumb and stupid, until that eloquent moment.

Obama is the 'pretty boy'. And, he took it as such. Let's see what he does with it, now that he has it.

And personally, I consider him as the single most greatest danger in this world. By comparison, I would put him (with world leaders) as to Creflo Dollar or T.D. Jakes (is with Christianity).

Agreed-battleground states are the only states anyone really cares about.

The whole "landslide" question is slippery in our system because of the Electoral College; this was an electoral landslide, but a bit over 46% of folks voted for Mr. McCain, and that's unarguably serious support. Even looking at just the popular vote, the reason Mr. Obama's results are impressive is that, with the exception of the war-warped 2004 election, it's been a while since we had a president with a clear majority of the popular vote.

Me, I still want a party-based parliamentary system and a plural executive except during a real war, like we had back in the '40s.

Edit: I don't want my "real war" comment to be taken as any disrespect for those serving in uniform. It is about our decades-long practice of ignoring the Constitution and letting presidents unilaterally start wars that are, IMO, never truly legal because Congress has been abdicating its responsibility. This is also a bipartisan problem.

It was because McCain was a doer, not a speaker.  Unfortunately the good talker won.

D.C. was 93% for obma 

and i know the "why" for the calling, i just dont like it  

I was talking specifically about the last time we had a constitutionally correct use of our warmaking powers. The proto-fascist aspects of the FDR administrations didn't come about *until* we were at war (the central theme of fascism is violent authoritarianism), which is part of why I believe wars should be extremely rare and desperately need active oversight by a legislature that knows it must retain as much of its share of power as it can during times when we need rapid, authoritative action from the executive.

If you want to start using what I think of as "the real f-word" seriously, we are closer now than we ever have been, and the road has been a bipartisan one, alas. IMO, the worst legacies of FDR are not "socialist" stuff, but the combination of an increasingly imperial presidency and the complete destruction of the US isolationists. I would have much preferred to see Truman emulate George Washington's humility by ending his administration with aggressive cutbacks to the powers that accrued to the White House under FDR. And, although I'm no isolationist, I wish they had been able to keep enough of their act together to prevent our long period of using our "peacetime" military as a political blunt instrument.

So, who won?
*opens up the blinds on the window for the first time in a week*

It's sort of like The Game.

If you post, you lose.

Oh, DAMMIT.