mean girls and boys

Fascinating story in the NYT today about the painful defections of supporters suffered by the Clintons over the last six months. At times the Clinton camp comes across like a mafia organisation whose power is fading, at others like a riled high school clique:

Mr. Kerry, however, endorsed Mr. Obama shortly after the New Hampshire primary. To this day, the Clinton and Kerry camps disagree over whether Mr. Kerry had made promises to intermediaries not to take sides.

He then publicly criticized Mr. Clinton’s conduct before the South Carolina primary. “And he was dead to us,” said one prominent Clinton supporter.