What is shaping up this November is a landslide victory for Senator Barack Obama, a Democrat, over Senator John McCain, a Republican. Two minor third-party candidates, Ralph Nader and Bob Barr, will split perhaps a million votes but will have absolutely no impact on the outcome.
It appears that Obama will now win with well over 300 electoral votes, far more than the 270 needed to prevail. Now that a consensus of political analysts agree that this is inevitable, Republicans, Independents, Conservatives of all sorts are fleeing McCain's campaign.
A huge portion of this decline is due to the choice of Sarah Palin as McCain's V-P running mate. I believe I wrote about his choice that it was a "political error for the ages," though at the time I could not have realized how prescient my words would prove to be.
McCain lost this election when he picked Palin. But he was and is going to lose anyway. What is so wonderful and comforting for all Americans is that our next President will be the better man, Barack Obama.
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