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thehill.com - 11/6/2008

Dems lower expectations

— thehill.com — Democratic leaders are tamping down on expectations for rapid change and trying to signal they will place... a calm hand on the nation’s tiller. “The country must be governed from the middle,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday. ... (more) Dems lower expectations

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Democratic National Committee

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timesonline.co.uk - 10/31/2008

Barack Obama lays plans to deaden expectation after election victory

— timesonline.co.uk — Watch Barack Obama's latest TV advert | Sketch - a mawkish weepathon Barack Obama s senior advisers... have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week s election, amid concerns that many of his euphoric supporters are ... (more) Barack Obama lays plans to deaden expectation after ...

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Barack Obama

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shakespearessister.blogspot.com - 11/9/2008

Great Expectations

— shakespearessister.blogspot.com — This is music to my ears. Please, Maude, let it be so: Transition advisers to President-elect Barack... Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies ... (more) Great Expectations

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Barack Obama

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Obama attempts to “lower expectations” in the event that he wins
Sister Toldjah — ... throughout the campaign to spur his supporters on to “believe” yet here in the final hours of the campaign he and his higher-ups are breaking it to his followers gently that the “change” he wants to implement will take time: ...

Obama, the Democrats and the possible future
QandO — ... Given all of this hopeychangitude that Obama has worked so hard to sell with himself as the blank screen on which his supporters (or dupes if you prefer) can project their version, he’s suddenly, it seems begun to think he might have oversold all of this: ...