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His criticisms of the campaign/Dem Party in general were along the lines of, "we need a narrative and we need a story, not just a list of what's wrong". He thinks his ability to tell a story about himself and connect to a broad base of voters with that story went a long way to getting him elected. Also, he'd been against going into Iraq from the time of the IWR vote so he didn't have to devote too much time explaining his position on that and could move on to other issues.
His closing comments were telling. Charlie Rose asked him, "where do you think George W. Bush's head is at right now?" Instead of giving a general "I can't say" answer, he said, "Well, the man I had lunch with last week with all the other new senators is clearly a supremely confident man. I see two possibilities. One is that he could find this a liberating experience, with no more elections to worry about, to concentrate on his legacy and do some positive, constructive things. The other possibility is that he takes a Messianic view of his election and decides that his re-election means he had done nothing wrong and will continue down this path.
I got the impression that he was hoping for the first possibility but was bracing for the second. His use of the word "messianic" seemed a bit telling.
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