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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 1285114" data-attributes="member: 1132">I don't think it was playing nice, I think it was transparency. I was furious when he won the primary. I didn't even feel like going to the polls. All his pretense of becoming more conservative during the campaign was a sham. His making up with the NRA was a sham and his picking Palin as his running mate was a sham. He had no intention of acting as the majority of his national Republican constituency would have had him act. Further, Obama is charismatic, McCain is not. Obama can suck in the uninformed masses with his charisma. McCain must rely on substance, of which he had none. The moderate Democrats were not swayed by him. Even his Arizona constituents are finally starting to see through him. Picking Palin momentarily assuaged many of the more frustrated Republicans who would have otherwise stayed home on election day. Right or wrong, it was a Hail Mary for McCain that didn't work.</blockquote>