"VOTE RED. THE PEOPLE ARE GOOFY."

In the interest of sanity, and for the relief of returning to some kind of normalcy, I've been trying to avoid in taking in or giving out postgame analysis, but I suppose I have a certain obligation to the Blogger community now, so I'll just say a few preliminary things.

First and foremost, this was a close race. It doesn't feel like it because of all that we had invested, but any objective evaluation would say this race was incredibly tight. For this reason, any attempt to explain the outcome with a singular reason is pointless. A million things could have made it turn out differently, so it is folly to say it was any one thing.

On the question of where we go from here, it's going to be more fundamental than most of the premature solutions that are being thrown out there. After a campaign as well financed and energetic as the one the party just had, the answer can't be as easy as a slight shift to incorporate this segment of the population or the other (i.e. move to the left, move to the right, build larger majorities among women, Hispanics, etc.)

Rather, the change must be more fundamental. We did everything that can be done on the campaign front, but it didn't get through.

To redress this, primary voters will need to rethink the way they make decisions. Rather than play campaign advisor, primary voters just need to vote for someone that they actually want to be president, so the victor will have similar appeal in the general.

Also, there'll need to be a change in the way we communicate. Even after this campaign to end all Democratic campaigns, it didn't work. It's not about getting the word out, it's what we say and how we say it. More later...as I said, I'm taking it easy.

By the way, a hearty congratulations to the NYU College Democrats for carrying Pennsylvania. We did our part.