] I wanted to wait 'til today's polls opened to post
] this, because I wanted it to be a post-mortem and not a
] vivisection. What follows is a long musing on the Dean
] campaign's use of internet tools, but it has a short
] thesis: the hard thing to explain is not how the Dean
] campaign blew such a huge lead, but rather why we ever
] thought that lead actually existed. Dean's campaign
] didn't just fail, it dissolved on contact with reality.

Clay Shirky on the failures of the Dean campaign.