I don't think I really learned anything from this
piece on Plouffe. I'll just say that with the economy as bad as it is, the posturing and positioning doesn't really matter much. Absent fixing the economy, drawing distinctions is important, as is actually explaining to voters what your agenda is, but the real mistake this administration made was perpetually thinking that the light at the end of the tunnel was just around the corner. There was never anything in the data that should have caused people to come to that conclusion with any confidence.
