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kpete

(71,991 posts) Mon Oct 1, 2012, 12:11 PM Oct 2012

"People think the election's done. Well, it' NOT"---AXELROD We CANNOT Be "irrationally exuberant."

"There can be an inflated sense of confidence that has an impact on turnout. People think the election's done. Well, it's not. It's going to be a close election. You don't want people to be irrationally exuberant."

-- David Axelrod, in an interview with Howard Kurtz.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/01/why-mitt-romney-is-trapped-by-his-negative-narrative.html

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"People think the election's done. Well, it' NOT"---AXELROD We CANNOT Be "irrationally exuberant." (Original Post) kpete Oct 2012 OP

Isn't that a Greenspan term? mr_hat Oct 2012 #1

mr_hat

(3,410 posts)

1. Isn't that a Greenspan term?

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Mon Oct 1, 2012, 12:24 PM

Oct 2012

Seems like he used that as a warning during the housing bubble. Or maybe tech.

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