Whatever happened to "Must win by double-digits."?

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 10:52 AM PDT

2008/04/26 · 10:52

In the days leading up to the Pennsylvania Primary, everywhere you looked in the media you would see, "Hillary Clinton must win Pennsylvania by double-digits in order to stay in the race." Here's a compilation of some of them:

http://www.elitestv.com/...

Well... She didn't win by double-digits, let alone by the "high double-digits" that most of the media had claimed was necessary. She won by less than 10%.

Once again, the goalposts have been moved. But this time, we're not going to allow them to change the rules in the middle of the game.

As a former RINO, but more accurately, as a former apathetic cynic, I've spent many years following politics somewhat dispassionately, I daresay almost objectively. Having "no dog in the fight" gave me a different perspective on both party machinations and media manipulation. The cynic in me always responded with "there's a sucker born every minute."

Now, for the first time, I do have a dog in this fight. Now, for the first time, I see past the blinders of my cynicism. Now, for the first time I understand that "the only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

We cannot let the machine and the media continue to get away with this. There is too much at stake, and, most importantly, we have a person of character, charisma and intelligence to elect as President of the United States.

So what do we do? In an Orwellian world in which the media (and the Clinton Machine) narrative changes overnight, how do we combat it?

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