How He Did It.

Newsweek has done it's traditional presidential election postmortem and as per usual, it's well worth reading. There's something to be said for inside information, like finding out how people really felt and what they were saying behind closed doors and when we hear quotes from the principal players, I feel that it allows us to humanize them. At least it allowed me to humanize them. Mind you, not enough to stop using my nickname for McCain ('OAD' - Old As Dirt), but at least enough for me to feel a bit bad for him. Nothing near my 2000 pity -- after seeing the aftermath of the dirty primary campaign against him in South Carolina -- but still a bit.

So without further ado:

Secrets of the 2008 Campaign - Newsweek