Chuck Todd has a great piece this weekend that lays out what will be happening within the Democratic Party on November 5th:
Whatever the reason, losing is not an option and an Obama loss would bring out the long knives inside the party walls.
A Democratic loss won't be blamed on ideology. Instead, the warring factions will consist of two groups.
First is the old Clinton guard who will argue that the party got too idealistic and didn't go back to its core FDR roots.
In addition, the Clinton guard will argue that Obama alienated too many women as well as Jewish voters and that'll explain why he didn't win Florida and, perhaps, lost Pennsylvania.
However, that won't be the end of the finger-pointing. Obama partisans will whip around and point the finger right back at the Clintons and claim she stayed in the race too long, race-baited and created an environment that was too toxic for an Obama victory.
This bitterness between the Clinton and Obama factions will be very personal and very bitter, opening up the possibility for a third faction to develop, one that will argue that Clinton and Obama were both too divisive to win.
This group could, ironically, be led by folks like Al Gore and John Edwards, two other failed presidential candidates in their own right.
Bottom line on the Democrats: an Obama loss would create a nasty, personal fight inside the party that the media will obsess about because the characters are so television friendly.
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