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rocktivity

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6. This is what he wrote back when he failed at marginalizing Obama
Sat Jan 21, 2012, 09:49 PM
Jan 2012

Last edited Tue Feb 18, 2014, 02:48 PM - Edit history (5)

...For all the hits...(Team Obama)...took (Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, "bitter," the PUMAs, Bill Ayers, Landstuhl, even Joe the Plumber), they were always working toward the prize (270-plus electoral votes)...If you simply judged the last three months of the 2008 campaign by which campaign "won" the daily news cycle, McCain came out ahead...
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And this is what I wrote:
Don't be so quick to pat yourself on the back, Chuckie. Fortunately, we didn't have to judge the election by who "won" the daily news cycles: thanks to the blogosphere providing us with a "public option" of sorts, the MSM couldn't "push" McCain "ahead" the way they could have a few short years ago. If we'd had to depend entirely on the MSM news cycles, a LOT fewer of us would have learned that the Clintons also had ties to Wright and Rezko, that there were plenty of controversial clergypeople in the McCain/Palin camp, and that Joe the Plumber WASN'T a plumber. The blogosphere (despite the attempts of First Read and Politico to muscle in) is the REAL reason why those "hits" didn't stick!
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/rocknation/458


Same script, different election year...


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