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Alcibiades

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22. Absolutely true
Thu May 3, 2012, 08:53 AM
May 2012

I know Kerry had some good people working for him, though: the direction for the campaign was too old-school establishment, and we brought a knife to a gunfight. Everyone on the left now understands this will be a brawl, no genteel affair.

Though Kerry should have understood that after 2000.

Still, 2004 seemed to me to be a particularly badly run campaign. I was here in NC, home of the VP nominee, and we got nothin. In contrast, in 2008 the Obama peopple did almost everything right, here in NC and elsewhere.

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