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Conventional Wisdom

By Big Tent Democrat

Nate Silver writes:

I tend to agree with the conventional wisdom that there was liable to be a bit of a near-term backlash whenever Obama announced his VP choice, provided that the VP was not Hillary Clinton . . .

(Emphasis supplied.) Funny, I never heard that anywhere before except, oh yes here, on June 8:

I'd like to interrupt this Unity Day message with a small reminder to the Barack Obama campaign and the Democratic Party - unless he picks Hillary Clinton as his running mate - the day he announces his Vice Presidential candidate will be a day of disunity. . . . I hope he has a plan for re-unifying the Party the day after he insists on NOT unifying, indeed, in dividing the Party by not choosing Hillary Clinton as his VP.

If everyone "knew" this would happen, then how come no one mentioned it until now? Just sayin'

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 26, 2008 (boomark / email).