[johnny7]

“ ...they were answering their home phones at, say, 2 p.m. on a Wednesday”

I guess this means that they were targeting the unemployed. Good strategery... Kerry said it was the worst economy since The Depression.

"Why do you think he's going to win?" I asked a staffer with whom I shared a hotel room. To this day I have no idea what his job was.”

This is precious... wonder if they 'hit-it-off'? HA!

[Cincinatus]

Almost no one working alongside me had the slightest inkling of Kerry's policy initiatives (clearly laid out on his Web site). No one knew what he'd done in the Senate.

What did he do in the Senate?

[Savage Beast]

The real downfall of the Democrats was that they got their message out.

[KJacob]

Farhad Manjoo spotlights the "lack of coordination" between the Kerry campaign and the celebrated liberal third-party groups, MoveOn.org and America Coming Together.

Wasn't that illegal?

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

I think they are being too hard on themselves. The Kerry campaign did an outstanding job. Considering that they managed to convince 48 % of the American electorate to vote for a pink-tie wearing, seditious, effete, Lurch-looking Yalie whose wife doesn't even seem to like him, I think they deserve a pat on the back.

Kerry's people were truly outstanding. It's Kerry that sucks.

[mountaineer]

But little advance work had been done and at a school with almost 25,000 students, about 50 people showed up to hear him speak. The whole thing was nearly upstaged when a group of undergraduates, carrying a Bush banner and smacking flip-flops, came and protested.

I love it when a plan comes together.

[ghost of nixon]

spotlights the "lack of coordination" between the Kerry campaign and the celebrated liberal third-party groups, MoveOn.org and America Coming Together

...is this boob arguing that there should have been more coordination? Does anyone even give a rip about what is legal?

[MaxMax]

Now this is what I call a Gem of a post. Thank you very much indeed.
And Merry Christmas.

[TomGuy]

Most of the Kerry supporters I met on the campaign trail, meanwhile, were really just Bush-haters. The lack of knowledge or even curiosity about Kerry, his career and his proposals, was astonishing. Almost no one working alongside me had the slightest inkling of Kerry's policy initiatives (clearly laid out on his Web site). No one knew what he'd done in the Senate. Many volunteers, even some paid staffers, didn't know how long he'd been a senator.

That is a good summary of the Kerry campaign -- from an insider.

Most people had no idea who Kerry was or what Kerry was. Even Kerry didn't know, with his continuous flipflops.

The frightening thing is -- few knew anything about him, yet he came close to winning. Had the bin Laden tape not surfaced the weekend before the election, I strongly believe Kerry would have won. And yet, even his own 'supporters' had no idea who he is or what his positions are.

[marron]

In his Dec. 15 Salon article, "The Revolution Failed -- for Now," Farhad Manjoo spotlights the "lack of coordination" between the Kerry campaign and the celebrated liberal third-party groups, MoveOn.org and America Coming Together.

Actually, such coordination is illegal, anyway. (And since it will happen, and needs to happen, whatever the law says, McCain Feingold needs to be retired, not strengthened. And Misters McCain and Feingold likewise need to be retired at the earliest opportunity).

[farmfriend]

Farhad Manjoo spotlights the "lack of coordination" between the Kerry campaign and the celebrated liberal third-party groups, MoveOn.org and America Coming Together.

Isn't that illegal?

[Michael.SF.]

Farhad Manjoo .. the "lack of coordination" between the Kerry campaign and ... MoveOn.org and America Coming Together

Suggested Christmas gift for Mr. Manjoo (we all know he does not have one of these):

[Rytwyng]

This particular office was awash in paid staffers who seemed to have nothing to do

Aha! They ran their campaign like a government bureaucracy! And with the same effectiveness.

[Echo Talon]

Farhad Manjoo spotlights the "lack of coordination" between the Kerry campaign and the celebrated liberal third-party groups, MoveOn.org and America Coming Together.

Let me assure you they were so well coordinated that they were married at the hips!

[Archytekt]

thanks for the post, I love this "inside" stuff.

"The Revolution Failed -- for Now"

"for Now" ??? HA! delusion springs eternal!

[Psycho_Bunny]

By and large, this article is a crock.  One could have picked-and-chosen local Bush campaigns and found the same weaknesses, and ignorance of the canidate.

The simple fact of the matter is that the Kerry campaign did get it's message out and it was too negative and too convoluted. 

The immaturity and mean-spiritedness of the current incarnation of the Democrat party shown through and cost them the election....and not only the presidency:  what Democrats really need to be asking themselves right now - where they really need to be doing the soul-searching - is how the hell they lost another 8 seats in Congress.

That's the big hit they took this year.  That's the real story of 2004.

[sportutegrl]

The Bush campaign was staffed by people who work for a living. These people know how to produce. (Unlike Stu Dent here, the unemployed, media talking heads, ivory tower types.)

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

"In his Dec. 15 Salon article, "The Revolution Failed -- for Now," Farhad Manjoo spotlights the "lack of coordination" between the Kerry campaign and the celebrated liberal third-party groups, MoveOn.org and America Coming Together."

So he wanted the sKerry campaign to break even more laws.

[bray]

This is total Bull Pucky, I called for 6 weeks and asked probably 100 Kerry supporters to give me a reason to vote for him and they couldn't. He never took a position on anything or laid a plan on any issue. Hatred of Bush is not a winning campaign.

Pray for W and Merry Christmas to Our Troops

[Husker8877]

...The precinct leader shook his head in disgust and laughed the laugh of the damned. "Evil or incompetence -- those are your choices,"

The only thing this idiot got wrong was that there really was no choice to be made. Kerry is both evil and incompetent.

[Zack Nguyen]

At a Bill Clinton rally just days before the election, we had been waiting nearly two hours and the Comeback Kid still hadn't shown up. There were interminable pauses during which no one came to the podium.

Bill Clinton shows such obvious contempt for those who adore him, it is really a wonder that there is anyone left who listens to him. The fact that he still draws adoring crowards of Marxist/leftists speaks more to the psychological state of his supporters than it does him.