Is this why the Republicans are going down in flames?

It's true. Let's be real. If nobody noticed until now, McCain is 'OLD'. I don't mean just in years, I mean in some stodgy, 1950's world-that-never-was way. "I did this and I did that, my friends." That's old folks home BS. Obama by contrast is 21st century, articulate, nuanced, insightful, has a firm grasp of 21st century reality, understands full well that as president he has to move almost all of our social institutions out of Ozzy and Harriet's house, kiss the Cleavers goodbye and stop loving Lucy! History is happening at an accelerated pace, driven by technology, a rising world populations composed of mostly piss poor people, an aging US population, climate change, outdated and unregulated financial giants, lunatic religious warlords financed by various oil rich thugocracies and a rapidly falling level of education appropriate to our times. We have a bloated military designed to re-fight WW2 tasked with fighting two losing wars using mive amounts of borrowed money, an oil and coal only energy policy and the possibility of pandemics of airborne disease that we're not equipped to even contemplate much less combat. The list goes on. McCain is in love with his 'experience', but nobody has experience in the future. That's why it takes the smartest man in the room to elect as our chief executive. McCain is as outdated as the Model T. Obama is as close to 'right now' as we're going to get. Thinking people recognize that. That's why he won. McCain is 'OLD', that's why he 'lost'!