Clinton Insiders Offer Post Mortem

The New Republic asked (anonymous) Hillary Clinton camp insiders why their candidate isn’t booking her ticket to Denver:

• “I just don't think she was hungry enough for it …It wasn't really until the 10-in-a-row loss that she started doing stuff like Saturday Night Live and Jon Stewart.”
• “Devastating vulnerabilities such as Obama's associations with Wright and Ayers were not unearthed by the campaign's vaunted research team in time.”

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• Her team “confused discipline with insularity; they didn't know what they didn't know and were too arrogant to ask.”
• Bill “just kind of imploded ... it became more about him than about her. It really was destructive overall.”
• “There was financial mismanagement bordering on fraud.”
• Advisers “dismissed the possibility of youth turning out heavily in Iowa for Obama ... saying, ‘They don't look like caucus-goers.’”
• We “lost all credibility with the press through endless and pointless memos,” cherry-picking “only positive polls when we were up and ignored polling when we were down.”

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