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Of course, it wasn't enough. In spite of massive efforts by groups on the left, we were out-organized by the Republican GOTV operation, as detailed in a recent Washington Post article, and the American people elected as president of the United States a man who condones torture, is borrowing money in our children's name to fund tax breaks for his friends and war on his father's enemies, and who is raping the environment. As you may be able to tell, I took the election...

In the days immediately following the election, I made several resolutions. The first was not to join the circular firing squad that is the Democratic party after every loss. In many ways the amazing thing about the election is that the Democratic candidate did so well. While we made a lot of mistakes we can learn from, narrowly losing an election against an incumbent president who the media had anointed as king, who convinced the country we were at war and who borrowed enough money to pump up the economy is not a sign that everything we did was...