One point that has received little attention is the fact that we are seeing a Teddy/Hillary battle going on within the Kerry campaign. After Kerry's problems before the Dean meltdown, the campaign brought in the TeddyKennedy mafia (Cahill, Meehan, etc.). Now, he's brought in the Clintonites, without firing Teddy's gang, and the top spots are now double-filled. One can only imagine the infighting and chaos!
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Kerry has convinced himself that he won the Democrat nomination.
Kerry actually 'got' it by default after the Dean meltdown. Kerry was barely holding third place in many states. Even after most dropped out and Kerry was the lone significant Dem candidate, he was only garnering 2/3 of the Dem primary votes. Fully 1/3 were voting against him in many remaining primaries; it was ABK (Anyone But Kerry).
[The DNC probably wish they had heeded that 1/3 and gone with ABK as their candidate of choice.]
'Reminds me of a C.S. Lewis book "That Hideous Strength" where hell is characterized as a beauracracy filled with people who feed on eachother's failure.