The lesson here, as Dr. Dean always used to say, is run QUALITY candidates

[scheming daemons]

We didn't.


Actually, the Repukes didn't either. But their voters are lockstep mouth-breathers who would vote for a carcas with and "R" next to it.


But Democrats need quality candidates. Martha wasn't one.

[MadBadger]

1. I think she was a quality candidate on paper. But her campaign was anything but quality.

[theoldman]

3. The campaign is 60% of any election.

How else could Bush have won an election.

[frazzled]

2. The Democrats in Massachusetts had a choice in the primaries

They chose Coakley. Howard Dean would like you to think there is some big control conspiracy out of Washington. But the Democratic Party in Massachusetts decided who would run. Just like they chose Shannon O'Brien to run against Mitt Romney and lost. Because she was b.o.r.i.n.g.

[KittyWampus]

4. the Republicans successfully manage their puppets. Top, down. The feed Mediawhores talking points

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[KILL THE WISE ONE]

5. she did not even campaign for most of the last month

she deserved to loose.
but now we pay the price.

[Retrograde]

6. Lesson Number 2: don't take the electorate for granted (n/y)