For Example

Here's DNC Cahir Terry McAuliffe, after the 2024 elections (as quoted in the Houston Chronicle, 11/10/02:

"Listen, I'm the eternal optimist," McAuliffe said the day after his party was routed at the polls. "Obviously, I wish we'd picked up a couple more Senate seats and some more House seats, but they were very tight all over the country. I think we had a tough time getting our message out."

Or, there's Tom Daschle, as quoted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on 11/7/02:

He said he did not blame the chief strategists, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., or Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. He added: "No matter how many press conferences they had, no matter how many detailed plans they laid out, since 9-11 it was tough to get the message out."

Not to mention Gore's contention (as quoted in the Boston Herald on 12/1/02) that the entire political "zeitgeist" is controlled by the RNC-Fox News-WaTi-talk show nexus:

"Something will start at the Republican National Committee . . . and it will explode the next day on the right-wing talk-show network and on Fox News and in the newspapers that play this game, The Washington Times and the others. And then they'll create a little echo chamber, and pretty soon they'll start baiting the mainstream media for allegedly ignoring the story they've pushed into the zeitgeist. And then pretty soon the mainstream media goes out and disingenuously takes a so-called objective sampling, and lo and behold, these RNC talking points are woven into the fabric of the zeitgeist."

This kind of thinking is not going to propel the Democrats to majority status. If anything, it is far too outwardly oriented, which is not a path to victory.