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How I stopped being depressed and started to love Barack again:::
I went to bed last night, like a lot of loyal Democrats and Obama supporters, a little stunned. We had been told time and time again that coming from 20+ point deficits in just a few weeks, racking up a string of victories that would have ended most other primary contests, and having a clear lead in the math that counted (the delegates), was just not enough for us to feel good about last nights results. I got up in the morning today with a hole in my stomach, unsure what we could do at this point. I admit I have a tendency to wallow in my losses a bit. I gave up on politics until November 2004 after Dean evaporated. I read some discussion of the victory of Pyrrhus on another thread and it got me thinking. This time I decided to really look at what happened. I'm an Obama supporter, but that doesn't mean I can't learn from a loss.
In a firefight there are a few tactics that really work, and we got to see lots of them from Clinton the past two weeks. Below the fold I'll review the one's we've seen, and why this contest is far from over, and not just because of the math.
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