TPM Editor’s Blog

Not 2008

A favorite bit of spin for those wanting to suggest that Mitt Romney hasn’t been damaged by an unexpectedly difficult primary has been that Obama and Clinton duked it out for months in 2008 — and the Democrats emerged stronger for it.

Here’s why that comparison is so obviously inappropriate.

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