AP examines the fall of the Clinton campaign

I suspect that over the next few weeks, we'll see many articles deconstructing how the Clinton campaign collapsed. AP's analysis looks at the obvious, but it's going to get really ugly when the top Clinton aides all start trashing each other:

These are some of the paradoxes and missed opportunities that will be examined by the cottage industry sure to arise to explore the what-ifs of Clinton's campaign.

By now, it's common knowledge that she planned to wrap up the nomination in early February. It was a reasonable assumption in 2007 but there wasn't much of a Plan B when that didn't work out in 2008.

"Her inevitability was based on a concept that no one would have the gumption or the resources or drive to get in - anyone with serious chances," Dick Harpootlian, a former South Carolina Democratic chairman and Barack Obama supporter, said after her Super Tuesday strategy fell short.

"They had an inevitability strategy, which was sort of a political Maginot line. It was illusionary. You just went around it, and, you know, Barack Obama did that."

David Gergen, a senior adviser to a succession of presidents from both parties, thought she was not well served by her team, citing "elements of malpractice in this campaign."

Malpractice is an understatement. But, Demcocrats being Democrats, the worst offenders on the campaign staff will go on to make a lot of money working for other Democrats. It's the "screw up/move up" mentality. And, with so much at stake, the blame game will be fierce.