And it is not excluded as Barack Obama asks him to help him

On Wednesday, the Republican candidate John McCain election night, which was held in a palace of Phoenix in his fief of Arizona, quickly turned a longtime Senator short. Despite the loud music and fun in front of thousands of guests almost all white, often dressed with ostentation , the smiles of the early evening are rapidly frozen as and as the results fell on the giant screens.

Shortly before 2100 hours after failover among Democrats of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida, the mass was said and John McCain immediately acknowledged with panache his defeat. "This failure, it is mine, not yours", he said in brief remarks, alongside its Vice President, Sarah Palin. Recognizing "the special significance it has for black Americans, proud to be their tonight", he asked all his followers to offer, like him, "to our new President our goodwill and our efforts to (...)". "help restore the prosperity of our country and defend its security".

Yet, guests, time was yesterday evening especially in bitterness and disarray. "Obama is a Socialist, he has no experience, it is just charismatic!" frustrated woman. "My banker warned me, if Obama is elected, I'll not get the loan I need for my taxes will increase", said her husband. Looking back on a television screen couple Obama beaming before the immense Grand Park in Chicago crowd, another woman welcomed that at least his son did not, like so many other young people, voted Obama, because "the églisecatholique asked to choose the"pro life"candidate".

Already, names are circulating

A poisonous atmosphere reflecting the defeat of the Republican party. Because, with the loss of much of its strongholds, including the New-Mexico and Colorado, the "Grand Old Party", including the outgoing President, George Bush, beats all records of unpopularity, will have to come together around a new leader. Yesterday evening, already, names began to circulate, including that of Mitt Romney. Unfortunate rival McCain in the primaries, the former Governor of Massachusetts, by other mormon and millionaire businessman, "is the man for the job because of his skills in economics", including local Senator Chuck Gray. But the name of Mike Huckabee pastor, popular in the conservative southern state, is him also, evidence still present divisions within Republican.

The name of Sarah Palin is not quoted spontaneously, but many believe that the Governor of Alaska, forty-four years old and still unknown two months ago, will be a key to the future of the party, even for the presidential election of 2012. John McCain has also welcomed it last night "one of the best activists I ever saw and a new voice to our party."

Yet, if his appointment was first an asset in seducing the hostile to McCain evangelical base, his inexperience and his radical positions quickly became a ball for McCain in the race for the White House. "It is clear that Sarah Palin is the rising star of the party," recognizes Dewey Schade, local Republican official. "But I think that such a shift to the right might be fatal to Republicans." Because I am convinced that we remain predominantly a centre-right country.

After this defeat severe even if the rest Republican Arizona John McCain, seventy-two years, is permanently leave the political scene "His term as Senator short 2010, said one of his relatives, Georges Weisz. And it is not excluded as Barack Obama asks him to help him.