If McCain Pulls Off The Upset...

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-- Crisis; people don't want radical change when everything around them is changing.  

-- Obama was just too much of a 21st century figure for 20th century Americans.

-- McCain the brand: despite everything that he did, his brand was real enough; it lasted; it worked.

-- His compelling personal biography, as he laid out to many Americans for the first time in real detail at the Republican National Committee

-- Joe the Plumber -- somehow, Americans cottoned to Samuel Wurzelbacher and his concerns

-- The rejection of liberalism. Americans might not want Bush conservatism, but they certainly don't want unbridled liberalism either

-- The 72-Hour-Program: six years of fine tuning the world's greatest get-out-the-vote machine paid off for the GOP

-- Imponderables: hidden racism, a backlash against the media, etc.