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Ms. Clinton did not lose this race on the issues; the policy differences between herself and Mr. Obama were immaterial. She lost because of hubris: she never took him seriously until it was too late. She thought that Super Tuesday would crown her candidacy and she had no serious organization in any of the later primaries. Mr. Obama did. She thought caucus states – the state that gave him his lead – were undemocratic and she essentially conceded those states to him. She never did any serious opposition research on him. The fulminatons of Reverend Wright were there to be found if she’d looked, and if those sermons had been publicized in mid-December, Mr. Obama would have been dead. He ran a brilliant campaign; she ran a stupid one.