‘Her unshakeable image as a Beacon Hill insider’: A year after Mitt’s election, they’re still asking: How did he do it? Or more accurately: How did Dems blow it? The editor of CommonWealth magazine thinks his mag has stumbled upon some truths: changing demographics and Shannon’s ‘unshakeable image as a Beacon Hill insider.’ ... Picture Hub Blog slapping his forehead and exclaiming, ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ ... Sorry, but CommonWealth is about a year late on its analysis. Check out all the immediate post-election items from a year ago, from Margery Eagan to Scot Lehigh. I loved Margery’s debunking of the gender issue:

“It (Shannon’s loss) was about another nightmare vision: of Beacon Hill turned to Baghdad, of a totalitarian, tax-crazed regime. It was about Democrats behaving badly, the kind of pervasive, holier-than-thou, non-Democrats-are-evil arrogance we saw in rhetoric here (if you voted against bilingual education, you're an immigrant-hater) and in Minnesota. Remember the memorial service-turned-rally for late Sen. Paul Wellstone?”   ¶ 8:17 AM