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there's a certain triumphalism slipping into the discourse of American politics on both sides of the Dem-GOP divide, that I think does come from the agenda set at the top, a kind of "trickle down" psychology: Those Republican partisans who feel Bush's reappointment is a done deal, and those Democrat partisans who feel Howard Dean's nomination is equally wrapped up. I think both phenomena stem from the feeling that if one says victory is inevitable it therefore becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, if only by bullying dissident voices into silence. [Al Giordano - On democratic presidential primaries 15/12/2003]
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