Did you not understand what I meant about arm chair quarter backs? They look back, usually from a distance of not being a part of the active campaign themselves, with little knowledge of what went into the organization of that campaign and somehow think they would have done much better. Typically they don’t allow for the media bias or the “good old boy” shenanigans of the party leadership.
And yes I was involved but most forget that every person who comments on a blog or to friends influenced the campaign. Any non supportive comment about a candidate influenced the thought process of the person reading or hearing the comment. I’ll use the non supportive comments of Rove as an example. The non supportive comments he made the night O’Donnell won the primary and throughout the campaign set the stage and were used by individuals and pundants to further degrade her credibility.
I’m sorry, but from what I have seen, the Angle campaign had these problems and more. Rove was a jerk for voicing his concerns about O’Donnell before the general election - in a manner that could only hurt her, and after it was too late to change the primary results anyway. It would have been far better if he had delivered his critiques as a post-mortem. But I don’t see a problem in this particular post-mortem of a campaign that had the upper leg on Reid and squandered it. And although Rove is a vastly diminished figure now to me, he does understand GOTV and logistics - he built the Bush 2004 GOTV machine, the one time the GOP has overpowered the Dems in that department.