Bush, Kerry aides reflect on '04 election

[NVMojo]

COLLEGE STATION - An advertisement that questioned John Kerry's Vietnam War military service would capture a nation's attention during the 2004 presidential election, but the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks had a greater impact during the race, the manager for the Kerry-Edwards campaign said Wednesday.

"This was an election, from my point of view, that was completely overshadowed by 9/11," Mary Beth Cahill said at an election postmortem session at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University.

Ken Mehlman, who managed the Bush-Cheney campaign, emphasized how the "new media" of the Internet and cable TV networks, like Fox News, changed how people gather and disseminate information about candidates.

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3011421

[SoCalDem]

1. Post-mortems are of little use.. The "patient" is still dead..

If Dems could just learn ONE lesson it should be this...


SHUT UP...SHUT UP...SHUT UP...

Keep your "strategists" AWAY from reprters, microphones, cameras.. Repubes are very tight-lipped and keep their "pplans" under wraps. Dems seem UNABLE to keep from blabbing every plan them have..

[Moderator]

2. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1187559