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I GUESS THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.... Chances are you've seen the pic showing Barack Obama delivering a speech, with a mock caption that reads, "Everyone chill the f*** out. I got this." At times, it was hard to...
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Guess Who’s Coming to the White House
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org — When you’re 27, you sometimes feel that things that seem very present to many people in the political world — the 1994 midterms, say — are like ancient history. But by the same token, Frank Rich’s column reminds us that ... (more) Guess Who’s Coming to the White House
National Journal Online - For Pollsters, One Last Chance To Second-Guess
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BlueOregon — ... to govern like the later Clinton, from the center-right. Each man is sort of despicable (although in very different ways and it's not fair to compare evil with shmuckiness) -- and once upon a time we all expended a lot of ink and energy on their failings. (Well, on Penn, I did!) And now, each is a relic, a figure from another era in American politics: the era of vicious conservatism and those who tried to tiptoe around it. We're done with that, and with them. Steve Benen Are you sure it's a good idea to hold a rally in ...

The Post-Game Show...
Blah3 Feed — ... And Steve Benen looks back at all of the 'questionable' decisions made by the O campaign and concludes that they actually did know what they were doing the entire time. While Obama drove his supporters absolutely crazy at multiple points over the entire year, it's now evident that they mapped out a game plan and stuck to it, even in the face of Democrats second-guessing them every step of the way. While many Democrats got caught up in obsessing over daily tracking polls and the shitstorm of negative campaigning from McCain's side, Team Obama foresaw it all ...

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