nothing annoys me more than the notion of an "expectations game." there is no rule that says journalists must evaluate political events on the basis of expectations set by party apparatchiks. edition.cnn.com/2024/06/26/p...
Ugh, flashbacks to 2000 when the pre-debate discourse was nonstop "Gore is so articulate and Bush is just a bumbling guy from TX, he's going to get eaten alive." Then Bush "won" the debate by merely having both a subject and verb in a sentence.
