They have 17 million votes, and will almost certainly end up with the popular vote win.

Not bad for a campaign that was so shabbily run.!!

Interesting retrospective on the campaign.  If Mark Penn is allowed within 100 yards of another campaign ever again...

Why the big push to discredit the role of sexism in the 2008 Dem primary?

If this is to beat the "bitter" women into submission, I can tell you that it won't work.  It would backfire.  Refusing to acknowledge the existence of misogyny in the 2008 Dem primary is not helpful to Obama campaign.

Oh Yeah! We Have Come A Long Way Baby!

The fact that this article was written while she's still running illustrates what happened with the Clinton campaign. That's something that's always bothered me about the Clinton wing of the party - their eagerness to argue internal debates to the press (Carville and Emmanuel, with your 2006 "Dean sucks!" tour, I'm looking at you.). People talk about Clinton and her team in terms of how loyal everyone is to eachother, but anyone cooperating with this article doesn't strike me as particularly loyal to their candidate.

Don't get me wrong, I love reading this stuff, but it would be better for the party if we could wait for Clinton to end her campaign before cooperating with post-mortems.

What happened to the Clinton Campaign.

1. Mismanaged money: I'm no accountant, but if I  
raised over 1/4 billion dollars, I shouldn't have to "loan" my campaign 16 mill. Hillary should investigate where these funds went.

2. Early Overconfidence: This is an organization that thought this thing would be wrapped up by Super Tuesday.

3. Under Estimated Opponent: Happens a lot in sports, this shows poor planing, and the inexperience by the Clinton Team.

4. Overestimated Their Own Candidate: Remember Davey and Goliath. She was taken down by her own disengenous nature and weekly misspeaks.

Someone said "she won the popular vote" well ain't that special. If she were running for Class President that would be good. How much of that lead was eroded by her own attitude, and a shoddy campaign. she certainly didn't pick up votes, she lost them. Facts are facts.

She has ended her campaign...for the Presidential nomination.

Now, it's (ostensibly) a campaign to go positive, unify the party, and to buff up her rather tarnished image these days.

Also, why does no one ever mention Iraq?

You know THE big issue for Democrats going into the primary? The one where Hillary started drifting UNAPOLOGETICALLY to the right? The one where she literally told people for whom her Iraq authorization vote was issue to vote for someone else?

That was the biggest mistake, in my mind.

To mention sexism is to admit weakness, to be reviled for playing the gender card.

She can't talk about it.  They can't talk about it.

We can.  I have.  The sexist attacks on Senator Clinton have been disgusting and pervasive, and they're still going on..

"Clearly [Obama] was a phenomenon. He was tapping something really different than anyone had ever seen before. ... Months and months before Iowa, he was getting record crowds. I just think they should have really gone after him back in the summer and in the fall. I know it would have been a difficult decision to make back then. She's the leader of the party, the standard bearer, the big dog. Everyone thinks she's gonna win and walk away with it. Why go picking on Barack Obama? But that's just something the campaign should have done sooner."

"We didn't lay a serious glove on him until the fall. We tried to a little bit, but we weren't successful. We did silly stuff, like talk about David Geffen. It wasn't the substantive contrast we needed to make."

"Devastating vulnerabilities such as Obama's associations with Wright and Ayers were not unearthed by the campaign's vaunted research team in time to be fully taken advantage of--despite being readily available in the public domain."

They didn't go negative enough early enough? I submit that it was when Clinton's surrogates began smearing Obama's middle name, claiming he attended a madrassa, and implying he sold drugs, that voters began moving away from her in large numbers.

People, and Democrats especially, are sick to death of 8 years of rovian attack and wedge politics. And that's why the Bush/McCain ticket is only digging their hole deeper by continuing and escalating it. Bring it on.

None of this is news.  You wouldn't need to interview anybody anywhere to draw these conclusions.  More to the point: it was TNR's choice which analysis to report and which not.  They may have chosen to ignore the role of sexism in the campaign.  That certainly would be in keeping with their editorial point of view.

Most importantly, as bad as the sexism in the traditional media was, the worst was on the web.  The really vile postings on dKos, etc., and the biased reporting on TPM and HP may have affected the decisions of all those young and high information voters who voted for Obama.  The people discussed in this report may not have been aware of it.