DENVER — All throughout the week, strategists, analysts and pundits were chirping and complaining that the party's convention was too soft in the beginning by not blasting away at Sen. John McCain and President George W. Bush.

My CNN colleague James Carville, one of the chief architects of Bill Clinton's victory in 1992, was among those leading voices, believing that the Democrats didn't have a consistent message to counter the GOP.

Yet that was never the view that struck ...

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