The congress could have won, if: 1. It stopped barking about 2002, which ordinary Gujarathi's have long out grown. 2. If NDTVs, Barkhas, Javeds, Roys, Sardesai's and other 'larger than secular' media had stopped its abusing of Hindus. 3. If Congress had projected an able leader for the state and not an imported stuff and an equally inexperienced off spring.