That's pretty artful casuistry, Nitro. If "McCain watched Reagan's tax policies work, and believed in them," as you say, why didn't he use them as Obama and Reagan did---and won?
It can't be excused as poor skills on McCain's part; he had all the communications tools at hand and two years to use them. It was Obama who used Reagan's pitch of fighting for average Americans, not McCain.
I posted here last week that "Obama is in" because "the conservatives gave it away." There wasn't a world of doubt on election night. One early glimpse of the gathering crowds at Grant Park, with enough flags for a coronation, proved it.
With all the polls blinking blue, the only question was whether it would be a landslide. Let's be honest with ourselves: with rampant greed ruining millions of Americans, a promise of more equitable distribution of wealth was appealing.
Disappointing, King. Your response doesn't even rise to the level of sophistry, but I'm not surprised. You can't debate the point on the issue because you have no knowledge of it, so you continue to post didactic, false statements. Pathetic. My original evaluation of your post was correct.