>Here is the harsh-but-spot-on analysis of what happened from a
>Brilliant Democrat:
>
>1. Optimism trumps pessimism.
>
>2. Referendum on hated incumbent will produce defeat no matter how
>flawed challenger is (see: Florio versus Whitman, 1993)
>
>3. Democratic Party does not have moral platform to attack sexually
>harassing candidates (notice absence of either Clinton during the
>final stretch, once the charges broke)
>
>4. Was there a real difference between our tracking polls and the
>Republican tracking polls the final week post-LA Times allegations?
>If so, pollster problems in Democratic Party (so evident in 2002)
>seem to persist.
>
>When was the last time a Democrat lost 30% of the African-American
>vote in any race, any time? This is some achievement for Mulholland,
>South, Doak et al.