Education Dude is dead on when he asks: "Where exactly is McCain going to find all of the ideologically identical Republicans who are suddenly capable of AND willing to work the system differently?"
As much as McCain tries, this election isn't about individuals. Given the size of the federal government, it's inevitable that most of the same people who ran things the last eight years are going to be running things in a McCain administration. And the best of these Republicans are likely to be burned out/ looking to make money in the private sector, presenting McCain with a challenge of populating his administration with competent individuals, let alone reformers.
Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is attracting top policy experts who have been shut out of the government for the past eight years. More importantly, Obama has sought academics as advisers, rather than former White House aides. Especially in the economic context, these aides have often promoted policy that comports with accepted economic principles, even if it bucks party orthodoxy (see, e.g., positions on corporate tax dividends). It is the sum of such an administration of academics that will make a Maverick.
-Law Dude
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