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Don't overextend yourself in sounding enthusiastic:
June 4, 2008 | NEW YORK CITY -- All that was missing were the confetti cannons, the balloon drop and the TV screens flashing 2,118, the magic number for a Democratic convention majority. Barack Obama declared victory in idiosyncratic fashion, with a tough general-election speech at the site of this September's Republican Convention, and on a night when he lost a primary (South Dakota's) most had expected him to win. (He won Montana's contest.) The first-term Illinois senator was propelled to the nomination by Tuesday's rush of support from superdelegates, those members of Congress and party insiders who once were purported to be an undemocratic cabal out to rescue Hillary Clinton.
No, Wally, Barack Obama won fair and square. Squarely. Stop splitting hairs. The Clinton campaign is over.
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