Finger Pointing and Soul-searching

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is so much better when it's the other guy or girl as it were.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/...ex.html?hpt=T1

In the hours after Coakley's concession speech, though, Coakley's pollster Celinda Lake fired back at criticism that she ran a weak and misguided campaign and failed to recognize Brown's surge until it was too late.
Instead, Lake warned Democrats that, "There's a wave here. The first shore was New Jersey and Virginia," she said, referring to Democratic losses in the governors races there, "the second was Massachusetts and it's coming to the island now, so we'd better do something about it."
Other Democrats appeared to recognize the anti-Washington sentiment the recent votes represent.
Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia said that the election "became a referendum not only on health care reform but also on the openness and integrity of our government process."