Frode, your view of McCain aside, do you really think that American voters want a black radical leftist for president? Just look at Obama's actual documented voting history and associations.
The actual walk - not the talk - is the tale of the tape for politicians.
To tell the truth, IMHO it depends' on how many of the Voting populace see him as-Either the Black, radical leftist, or as someone who's not gonna keep going the same way the current administrations' going. Right now, people see the mortgage crisis, energy prices, increasing job losses, inflation of the dollar, And no plan to fix these things. The War on terror? What's that, the occupation of Iraq? People are tired of that, too. All they see of that is the huge tax burden it incurs. People are getting hit in the wallet, and to them, that's all that matters to them, they want to see some relief. When McCain keeps' parroting basically the same things' that Bush is, and Obama's talking economic and energy reform, they're listening to Obama because that's what they want. McCain would be wise to split with bush, and start harping up a plan to get the economy back to where it was in the year 2000.
Myself...I don't foresee either of those candidate's coming up with any kind of economic plan that would fix all of our domestic problems in 4 years, or even 8. Not without some really draconian moves on the gov't's. part. Stimulus packages' are nice little windfalls, but not what this country needs. It needs' it's factories back. It needs' it's outsourced jobs back. It needs' it's base manufacturing economy on american soil paying wages to american consumers, so that they can spend their money in an american economy. And neither of those candidates' has come out and said that.