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Saturday, June 5, 2010

Mickey Kaus takes the expectations game to the extreme.

"'To win I just need to get more votes than I'm expected to get. And since I'm expected to get zero, the threshold for success is low.'"


posted by John Althouse Cohen on Saturday, June 05, 2010
Tags: kaus, nyt, senate

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