In a campaign that lasted forever, it was probably bound to wind up as it did one rainy weekend in late April. Sen. Barack Obama was visibly tired. He was, his advisers said, frustrated by the increasingly petty nature of the race. Questions about his associations with 1960s radicals and a provocative Chicago minister, and on wearing an American flag lapel pin, had dominated the last debate. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton just would not go away, and was now taunting him with questions about why Obama could not seem to "seal the deal" in blockbuster Midwestern states.

And so that weekend, Obama did what he had said he would not. He went negative--taking the bait, in the view ...

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