I don't want to downplay the work that people have done, but when 
Labour won in the UK in 1992 after more than a decade of the 
Conservatives, their organisation was first rate, bolstered by 
help from Clinton's people. They concentrated their efforts in the 
swing constituencies, and almost ignored safe seats.  When the 
election came, the swing was no greater in the seats where they 
campaigned intensively, and they won many seats where they did 
no work, and didn't even have serious candidates. I'm not 
making an argument for inaction, but I agree with Slavoj that 
the result reflected the times. It was a failure of ideas, not 
of organisation.

James Greenstein