Bottom line: the Romney campaign made their bed with the early state primary strategy and got short-sheeted.

The momentum that Huckabee gained through his stunning Iowa win together with the victory that McCain edged out in New Hampshire seriously maimed the Romney narrative.

Of course, there were plenty of other factors to break the back of Team Romney:

• The relentless flip-flop bashing
  
• The anti-Mormon rhetoric
  
• The numerous dedicated anti-Romney sites (more on this later)
• The suppressed candidate syndrome
• The 11th hour johnny-come-too-lately endorsements
• Never getting an "inevitable" moment

But there were so many things the campaign did right, did well, and made history on:

• Breaking the mold on fundraising tools, events and programs
  
• The outreach to new media
• The news machine intent on winning the information war
• Utilizing the family as surrogate candidates
• The online innovations that never NEVER stopped
• Combining business best practices with traditional campaign approaches
• Honing the GOTV effort with locale prowess

The list goes on...

As Patrick Ruffini notes the campaign did almost everything it needed to... it just came a little bit short.

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