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...online video games, including the racing game “Burnout Paradise” and role-playing game Second Life. Republican presidential candidate John McCain also had an avatar on Second Life, but Obama supporters playing Second Life painted virtual graffiti and virtually double-parked in front of McCain??s virtual apartment, according to Hillygus. Such advertising was less effective for McCain because his constituency was less likely to play video games, she said...
...called the transformative nature of this election. Schwartz, a reporter for The Washington Post, highlighted the unique strategy employed by President-elect Barack Obama, praising his poise and discipline for helping him avoid traditional political tactics such as personal attacks. By contrast, she said she thought that John McCain??s attacks on Obama had backfired and had actually cost the Republican candidate support. When McCain attacked Obama’s experience in an effort to sway public opinion in his direction, “Obama didn’t take the bait,” Schwartz said, casting...
...recent New York Times/CBS poll found that voters who rejected McCain in the final stretch cited his persistent attacks on Obama’s character as one of their main reasons for doing so. While Obama’s associations were fair game, they ultimately seemed irrelevant, and McCain??s harping on them revealed a lack of innovative ideas on more important issues...
...Barack Obama has won the 2008 election. No one should be surprised. In the past several months, we all bore witness to his meteoric rise, which coincided with John McCain??s meteoric fall. As the majority of the country rejoices in Obama-mania, we die-hard McCainiacs can’t help but feel sorry for ourselves...
...Earlier this year, when McCain finally clenched the GOP nomination, I wept tears of joy, much to the bewildered disgust of my liberal friends. To me, the prospect of a McCain presidency was the realization of my conservative dreams. Like many of his supporters, I had always believed that McCain??s biggest political stumbling block was winning a party nomination. I figured that a general election victory would be a breeze, because he appealed to so many moderates. Obviously, I have been proven wrong by this election cycle. But it is not only that McCain was confronted with...