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Clinton backer McGovern now wants her to drop out
George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, had been supporting Hillary Clinton -- now he thinks she should get out of the race.
Alex Koppelman [2008-05-07]

  • @ KStone

    So just mentioning his middle name name is obsessing over it, huh? Funny...

    Well, how many other candidates have been referred to with all three names? I don't think I read too many stories about John Sidney McCain III, or Johnny Reid Edwards, or Michael Dale Huckabee. Hell, even Hillary Rodham Clinton put a lid on the use of her middle name when she realized that making that symbolic gesture of independent womanhood didn't play so well in the heartland.

    So, yeah, I think that compulsively mentioning one candidate's middle name and not the others' is a little weird. Even obsessive, one might say.

    -- BryanS
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    Wednesday, May 7, 2008 03:10 PM
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