given that obama ran a nearly flawless campaign, he's an inspirational speaker, and george bush's record was a millstone around mccain's neck, why didn't obama get more of the popular vote?
maladroit Reviewed by maladroit on . Obama needs to thank his campaign managers with... David Axelrod and the rest of his team ran an amazing campaign. They formed a good strategy, played up his strengths, dispatched a strong female candidate without offense, raised an incredible amount of money, targeted areas of high vote concentration that he had a chance of winning and closing the deal, and got inspired people believed to be Obama supporters to vote and vote early. They didn't take risks and they handled booby traps with ease. They did get some help from W in the last 2 Rating: 5