Having said that, I think one of McCain’s biggest mistakes in this campaign was during the debate of the cash for trash……I mean bailout bill. One of course can’t say with any degree of certainty what would have happened, but I can’t help but to believe that if he had voted against that bill instead of for it that he might have a chance to be elected President. It would have helped his image as a “maverick” for sure, and helped him connect more with the average Joe (plumber or otherwise) in the country.

I think also he should have focused some more of Obama’s positions on noneconomic issues more than he has. The fact that Obama supports “hate crimes” legislation, gun control and appointing judges like Ginsburg to the courts I think might well have won McCain a lot more support in rural areas than he has gotten (I’m sure McCain will win the rural areas, the question is by how much). Pointing out those differences I think would have gotten him more traction than campaigning on the platform of “I’m not going to raise your taxes and I’m going to ’stay the course’ in Iraq.”

Oh well, those are the rantings of one of McCain’s reluctant supporters down in dixie.