Comments on: Championship Game, Fourth Quarter, Minutes Left http://themoderatevoice.com/24005/championship-game-fourth-quarter-minutes-left/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 23:08:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/24005/championship-game-fourth-quarter-minutes-left/comment-page-1/#comment-162376 DLS Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:39:42 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/general/24005/championship-game-fourth-quarter-minutes-left/#comment-162376 And:<br><br>"Second place is the worst feeling of all."<br><br>It is if you have a real chance to win, or if you were the expected champion until being upset in the Big Game earlier in the season, only to be blown out worse and worse after that.<br><br>Just ask Clinton fans. (Silhouette? Are you still out there, between McCain rallies?)<br><br><a href="http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_DConv08.cfm">http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_DConv0...</a> And:

“Second place is the worst feeling of all.”

It is if you have a real chance to win, or if you were the expected champion until being upset in the Big Game earlier in the season, only to be blown out worse and worse after that.

Just ask Clinton fans. (Silhouette? Are you still out there, between McCain rallies?)

http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_DConv0…

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/24005/championship-game-fourth-quarter-minutes-left/comment-page-1/#comment-162372 DLS Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:26:50 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/general/24005/championship-game-fourth-quarter-minutes-left/#comment-162372 False analogy. But at least it goes lightly on the ridiculous agitation and sometime hysteria that has been the Left's and Obama-sides hallmark throughout the year (from which we can expect at least some measure of relief after tomorrow).<br><br>McCain is positive, not negative (which is why his numbers are climbing), at the same time that Obama isn't finishing very strongly (so much for Lasse Viren and the '72 5,000 km final finishing kick analogy), but on a somewhat restrained, risk-avoiding, "calm competence" note, taking time to appeal to some of the ideals held by those who most support him.<br><br>And there is less than one minute to go -- McCain's playing very well for _once_ this game, but it probably is another kind of "too little, too late" effort. (Had he been doing this well since Super Tuesday, he might be leading Obama right now -- not guaranteed, but maybe.) False analogy. But at least it goes lightly on the ridiculous agitation and sometime hysteria that has been the Left's and Obama-sides hallmark throughout the year (from which we can expect at least some measure of relief after tomorrow).

McCain is positive, not negative (which is why his numbers are climbing), at the same time that Obama isn't finishing very strongly (so much for Lasse Viren and the '72 5,000 km final finishing kick analogy), but on a somewhat restrained, risk-avoiding, “calm competence” note, taking time to appeal to some of the ideals held by those who most support him.

And there is less than one minute to go — McCain's playing very well for _once_ this game, but it probably is another kind of “too little, too late” effort. (Had he been doing this well since Super Tuesday, he might be leading Obama right now — not guaranteed, but maybe.)

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