Author: trabaninoscartrabaninoscar
Date: May 10, 2008 16:13
by organicdemocrat
Sat May 10, 2008 at 03:09:18 PM PDT
Everyone but Sen. Clinton knows it is over. Everyone is busy with post-
game analysis of why she lost. But the reason is so obvious that it is
staring us in the face. Even the best analysis, from Karen Tumulty,
does not mention it, perhaps because it is too obvious.
1. She misread the mood and tried to run as a Washington
insider/incumbent when the electorate was hungry for change.
2. Her strategists didn’t have a good understanding of the
nomination rules. Allegedly, chief strategist Mark Penn was actually
ignorant of the proportional allocation rule and thought just winning
the big states would be enough to secure the nomination.
3. She underestimated the caucus states and chose not to put
resources into them because she thought her core voters would be
unlikely to caucus.
4. She relied on old money for fundraising and didn’t tap into
the new modes of Internet fundraising.
5. She didn’t plan ahead for a long race and was very late to
set up operations in states which voted after Super Tuesday.
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