Second, I'm not surprised Obama won. Clinton's team made several key mistakes. first, they started off by making Bill the candidate and not Hillary. Once she began to run on her own her numbers rose dramatically. Third, they had a hard time getting their message to be cohesive. However, you notice that in the last 4 months her wins escalated dramatically.

I also have to take into account the fiasco that the DNC made of Fl and MI. You can't win by disenfranchising voters - at least not in the long run. Dean's also making a key mistake in trying to short-cut rebranding the Democratic Party. Nothing like a rockstar to give a party panache, but it tends to run short. Heck, he gave Obama his list of grass root donors.