Bad nominee withdraws. Obvious defeat for everyone who thought he was a bad nominee.

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77. The cognitive dissonance has proved to be too much for some hard core fan club members

In their minds, Obama must always come out as the victor, so they will spin it and think of everything that happens in those terms.

It was the same thing in Syria. Since Obama seemed to be gung ho about attacking Syria, therefore, they were too. So for weeks they said stuff like “Think of the children!" and "We are morally bound to help them by attacking Assad, if you disagree you must be a terrible uncaring person!“ or the always popular "I trust my president! Whatever he says and thinks I support 100%. And he is smarter than you, so there!"

So, when Obama backed down due to a number of factors, (Putin intervening, Hard opposition against it by most citizens) All of a sudden, the urgency to attack disappeared as if by magic, and they now forgot all about their righteous moral outrage. So then you see the crazed reactions and altered reality responses, they were on board all along and it was all a secret grand plan by Obama!!