Out organised - the story of a political defeat

For those of us following the US election the interesting issue is how long Clinton can survive. She is playing the HDDVD to Obama's Blu-ray.

When the whole campaign is dissected I think the key issues that will emerge and nasty politics from Clinton and poor campaign organisation.

Clinton hired her friend Patti Solis Doyle was hired as campaign manager. She did win over the latino vote but didn't do many other things, like organise internet fundraising or ensuring that the on-the-ground organisation in some states was up to it.
While Obama's campaign raised huge sums on the internet the Clinton campaign ran out of money, the staff started to forego wages and Hillary had to lend her own campaign $5m. That was when Solis Doyle 'resigned'.

Tellingly though it seems from what I read that the Obama campaign is just better organised. clinically so.

The latest thing is this - Hillary puts an ad out (3am) questioning who would the US want in the Whitehouse if the phone goes at 3am because there's something going on.
The Obama campaign - recreated a very closely similar ad and had it on air in about 12 hours!!!!!!

http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2008/02/29/daaamn-that-was-fast.aspx