Arianna Huffington's widely-discussed column from Thursday is a good analysis (and surely the first of many more to come) on why John Kerry lost the election.
According to this article, which includes a decent number of on-the-record quotes from camapaign officials and insiders, there was a Titanic struggle behind the scenes between those who favoured taking on Bush's record on the war on terrorism (mainly luminaries from Democratic Party's left flank and Kerry's friends) and those who wanted to emphasize the economy and domestic issues (the old Clinton gang.) The Clinton folks won the day.
Hindsight is always 20/20, (although I always belived this election was about who could keep America safest) but obviously the Clinton people's counsel turned out to be a big disaster. I'm surprised they would be so off-base.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 1:01 PM
