Why Did Obama Win?
The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election
by Kate Kenski, Bruce W. Hardy, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson
–Reviewed by Adam Fleisher
The ruthless efficiency with which the Obama campaign dispatched the McCain-Palin ticket should put to rest the notion that our president is too disinterested in politics for his own good.
Granted, McCain stumbled by declaring in the midst of the economic collapse that “the fundamentals of our economy are sound” and further hobbled his campaign by choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate. And Democrats went into …
