Monday, October 1, 2012
Playing the debate expectations game
Posted by Max Brantley on Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:53 PM
Both President Obama and Mitt Romney are playing down debate expectations, a time-honored tradition to work the refs in the expectations game. Nonetheless, Talking Points Memo has compiled a video with clips of Romney back in the primary, when taller talk was the order of the day.
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