McCain's Reaction...

[Andy_S]

Oh! Bummer!

[Ian]

you mean the redneck jeering from the crowd?

months of calling obama a "one-man terrorist cell" probably had something to do with it.

[count]

He must have been thinking, Damn, I lost to George Bush again. And he wasn't even running.

[Chris Fleming]

He must have been thinking, Damn, I lost to George Bush again. And he wasn't even running.

QFT!!!

[Bär]

He looked greatly relieved during his speech. The end of the campaigning was surely the main reason, but I can't help but think that he wasn't up to the task of this job anymore and he knew it.

[tastydurian]

I liked his line "the failure is mine and not yours", which I respected greatly.

[steelincotton]

I respect McCain's service to his country, and he was very humble last night. That's the guy he should had been during the last two years, and he may have beaten Obama. But, no. Instead, they decided to go along with the usual Karl Rove swiftboat and guilt-by-association games that so many American are so sick and tired of. But, his biggest downfall of all was his unvetted selection of Sarah Palin, which will probably go down in history as one of the biggest election blunders of all time imho.

[meeks]

steelincotton - qft. well said. That was a McCain I'd never seen before and if he'd portrayed himself with the same maturity and openness as he did during his concession speech it might have been a different vote (at least a lot closer in the electoral college...)

[Steve James]

I think he made a lot of friends last night. I wouldn't be surprised if Obama tried to recruit him, at least to specifically try to work with him. McCain is, for the time, the leader of the Republicans.

I can't speak for anyone else, but the negativity of his campaign turned me against him the same way I turned away from Hillary. Obama didn't begin being the frontrunner; the attacks made him one.