What was the most significant factor contributing to the Obama election victory?

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Rick Warren
	Financial Crisis was the most significant factor contributing to the Obama election victory. Actually, I think, Alan, in this particular election, the economy trumped literally everything else. People were worried about the bread and butter issues.
	12/22/2008 1:46:35 PM

Michael Musto
	George W. Bush was the most significant factor contributing to the Obama election victory. "an overwhelming groundswell against Dubya"
	12/16/2008 2:44:29 PM

Roger Ailes
	Financial Crisis was the most significant factor contributing to the Obama election victory. John McCain had a chance until the economic collapse.
	12/16/2008 2:34:59 PM

Alan Dershowitz
	Obama's campaign was the most significant factor contributing to his election victory. He won the election because he was an overwhelmingly superior candidate who ran an extraordinary campaign.
	11/30/2008 2:08:25 AM

Ben Smith
	Obama's campaign was the most significant factor contributing to his election victory. Obama won on his own terms, strategically and symbolically.
	11/30/2008 2:00:05 AM

Ari Fleischer
	Financial Crisis was the most significant factor contributing to the Obama election victory. "I think what really lost the election was the financial tsunami."
	11/24/2008 10:04:25 AM

Jack Welch
	Obama's campaign was the most significant factor contributing to his election victory. In nearly two years of steady blocking and tackling, Obama's team made few mistakes. From the outset, his advisers were best in class, and his players were always prepared, agile, and where they needed to be.
	11/12/2008 4:14:22 PM

The Economist
	Financial Crisis was the most significant factor contributing to the Obama election victory. But what finally persuaded a right-of-centre country to support a left-of-centre candidate was the economy in general, and the Wall Street meltdown in particular.
	11/11/2008 2:21:54 PM

Ryan Lizza
	George W. Bush was the most significant factor contributing to the Obama election victory. "In their tactical view, all that was wrong with the United States could be summarized in one word: Bush"
	11/11/2008 7:27:33 AM

Alan Colmes
	George W. Bush was the most significant factor contributing to the Obama election victory. Anyone could have walked in and said 'I'm going to be your new President'
	11/10/2008 11:17:21 PM

Steve Schmidt
	Obama's campaign was the most significant factor contributing to his election victory. Obama campaign was "perfectly run"
	11/10/2008 4:45:37 AM

Thomas Friedman
	Financial Crisis was the most significant factor contributing to the Obama election victory. To be sure, it probably took a once-in-a-century economic crisis to get enough white people to vote for a black man.
	11/10/2008 4:44:33 AM

Donna Brazile
	Obama's campaign was the most significant factor contributing to his election victory. "The key ingredient was Obama's ability to build a campaign from the bottom up."
	11/9/2008 7:51:08 PM

Hilary Rosen
	Obama's campaign was the most significant factor contributing to his election victory. "He created a campaign that had a role for everyone."
	11/9/2008 7:51:00 PM

Byron York
	George W. Bush was the most significant factor contributing to the Obama election victory. Could he have been elected to succeed a president of his own party whose job approval rating was 25 percent? Probably not.
	11/9/2008 7:50:43 PM

Michael Moore
	Obama's campaign was the most significant factor contributing to his election victory. "I don't think that McCain lost this election... I think this was won by Barack Obama."
	11/9/2008 7:50:15 PM

David Brody
	Obama's campaign was the most significant factor contributing to his election victory. There is no doubt that the team he assembled performed magnificently.
	11/9/2008 7:49:45 PM

George Packer
	George W. Bush was the most significant factor contributing to the Obama election victory. McCain must be thinking: Damn you, George W. Bush, you beat me again
	11/8/2008 5:49:14 PM

John Dickerson
	Obama's campaign was the most significant factor contributing to his election victory. They designed a plan and executed it relentlessly through a brutal primary and general election.
	11/8/2008 5:47:13 PM

Charles Krauthammer
	Financial Crisis was the most significant factor contributing to the Obama election victory. The patient was fatally stricken on Sept. 15 [when Lehman Brothers collapsed]
	11/8/2008 5:44:30 PM