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The Quadrennial Elite Pundit Meltdown

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Carl Beijer
Sep 09, 2016
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Wednesday night, Jonathan Chait kicked off one of my favorite election year traditions: the Quadrennial Elite Pundit Meltdown. The most famous version of this was Andrew Sullivan’s hilarious Did Obama Just Throw The Entire Election Away? freakout in 2012, when he proclaimed that “Obama has instantly plummeted into near-oblivion” after a relatively letha…

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