According to a Los Angeles Times report, John Kerry is positioning himself for another White House run in 2008. For the rest of us, there comes a time to move on, give up steering all conversations towards demographic changes in Florida and delete Electoral Vote Predictor from our bookmarks.
If you are not quite at that stage yet, Newsweek can provide a final fix. Its reporters followed the campaigns from beginning to end, and have put together something approaching a book - eight chapters, plus an introduction and huge amounts of analysis on any topic you could imagine.
It is all there, from the summer 2002 fundraiser where Howard Dean shouted out to a gay crowd: "If Bill Clinton could be the first black president, I can be the first gay president!" to the very different definition of "moral values" revealed by the Bush victory.
Mr Kerry's story plays a big part too, and when you hear about the standard of some of the early hotels, problems with campaign staff and difficulties in even getting aides to charge his mobile phone, you realise that the determination it takes to see the race through to the end must make it hard to surrender.
