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The difference is that Obama's association with Ayers was tangential and was not based on common ideology.

McCain, on the other hand, went to great lengths during the primaries to associate himself with Bush. He may have been doing so only to secure the nomination, but it came back to bite him.

#1 Obama was so popular that the vast majority of people brushed it away

#2 Obama got his punch in first, he was linking McCain to Bush, and the war to economic failures, a year before elections. His hit stuck and McCain / Palin couldn't shake it.

#3 While Ayers is a dirtbag, there's nothing bad for Obama that ever became of him working with Ayers.

Because Palin proved she had no idea what she was talking about on anything. McCain himself stated he voted with Bush 95 % of the time and people were tired of the way things had been going for the last 8 years. Its time to move on and hope that the next administration doesn't make half the mistakes the current one did.

It is because the media would not investigate the relationship. Also McCain brought it up in a debate, Barry said there was no relationship and Johnny shut up and never brought it up again. You should go on youtube and watch the interview with Bill Ayers and Chris Cuomo. I think that is how you spell Chris' last name.

Because it was pretty obvious that Obama and Ayers were not close. It was an irrelevant relationship. People are sick of the Karl Rovian fear politics. Americans have fallen for this for years by Republicans and look where it's gotten us. Rethuglicans have lost all credibility.

Rethuglicans claiming the media wouldn't investigate the relationship are so pathetic. Even their precious Faux News couldn't find anything. There was nothing there.

Obama wasn't connected with Ayers. McCain voted with Bush 95 percent of the time. What it says about Bush is that the American peolpe decided to not let him and his party scare us anymore, that what they were offering was scarier than what he claimed (falsely) that he could stop.

Probably had something to do with the economy tanking big time.

Nobody really cared when there was other issues more important.

Because his loyal followers didn't care about any of the negatives about Obama. All they saw is dollar signs from all the money he planned on taking from the rich and hand out to everyone else. Seriously, there was a letter in our local newspapers from a woman who was so happy Obama won because now she won't have to pay her mortgage or pay for gas because Obama was going to pay it for her.

Nothing. All it says, is the people will swallow whatever the media feeds em.

How much did you ehar about Obama/Ayers from the media? and how many times did obama change his story?

now how much did you hear about mccain bush?

It says the media reported what Obama wanted reported, but not what McCain wanted reported.

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