Goddammit, Democrats, when the hell are you going to learn not to express doubts about your own side to a New York Times reporter? David Stout "contributed reporting to this article," and Jim Rutenberg shares the byline, but the first name under the headline is -- of course -- Adam Nagourney, and the story is -- of course -- on the front page of The New York Times, and it includes this:

Another Democrat close to the campaign, who asked not to be quoted by name, was more dire.

"When you're basically running on your biography and there are ongoing attacks that are undermining the credibility of your biography, you have a really big problem."

DO NOT DO THIS. It's not brain surgery. Republicans don't do this. Republicans win. Democrats do this. Democrats lose. Any questions?