Conventional wisdom has it that the financial crisis cooked John McCain’s goose, but Phil Klinker observes that the trend seems pretty smooth and Obama was leading and trending upwards before Lehman collapsed and the great panic began:
I think the evidence suggests that rather than being gutshot by the crisis, McCain was just more banally dragged down by the poor economic situation in terms of GDP, employment, and income growth.
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