Democrats Name Google's Eric Schmidt to Election Post-Mortem Group

The party is trying to figure out why it was so badly beaten in the midterm elections.
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Democrats in Washington, it seems, have been Googling the words "epic fail."

The Democratic National Committee is convening a group that includes Google Chairman Eric Schmidt with a goal of figuring out what went wrong in the midterm elections and how to fix it fast.