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Primary Day Ritual

By The Daily Dish
May 6 2008, 4:48 AM ET

An hilariously dead-on account by Al Giordano. And yes, it has already begun:

The day begins with the Clinton campaign “leaking” something to the Drudge Report to set expectations for the day. That then gets repeated on political blogs and cable news, where Clinton surrogate Terry McAuliffe elaborates. Today’s “expectation”: That the Clinton campaign expects a “15 point” defeat in North Carolina. Clinton’s yapping puppies in the news media repeat the manufactured expectation all day long, in which the bar is supposedly now that if Clinton comes within 15 points in that state that she has somehow “won” with a 14 point (or 6 point) defeat.

You know the rest ... God I hate the Clintons. More goal-post moving here.



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