Many havesaid that the singlereason McCainl ostwas his choice for VP even now a week later, the McCain Camp & The RNC are all over Palin for coutnless reasons
If he had choosen someone else he may have had a better chance

But I agree Obama's stratagist, David Axelrod, did as good a job if not better then Rove did for Bush, Obamam won by much large number in both electroral votes and popular votes, this was 1 elelction were the outcome had NO doubt, one may not like the outcome but the results were without question for once