The front page has been flooded with "Why Hillary Lost" diaries, which elicited this diary in response: Why Obama won!
The diarist in that diary makes an interesting point that an autopsy on the Clinton campaign does not really assist us in our next objective: winning the White House. He/She therefore looked at how Obama won. I propose that we should also be interested in how McCain won, as we might learn something from it.
So this diary looks at the McSame campaign, some reasons proposed by others for why he won the Republican nomination, some of my own, and some lessons that might help us defeat him this fall.