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There's a bit of a debate over whether Barack Obama broke his promise to let his supporters know his VP decision first via text and email message. One DailyKos blogger blames news networks for actually reporting news that was leaked to them rather than carrying water for Obama to maintain the surprise. Marc Ambinder, meanwhile, offers the following defense:
And I think the campaign kept its promise.
Supporters who went to bed before midnight ET will wake up and
check their cell phones...presumably before they flip on the
TV.
This is absurd. The whole point of the text message gimmick was to
make sure that supporters were the first ones to know -- not merely
to allow people the option of receiving word by text message if
they happen to go to sleep early on a Friday night and avoid
turning on the TV.
The bottom line is that the Obama campaign boasted for weeks that it would boldly change the way the VP choice was announced, and in the end the conventional VP choice got leaked in the conventional way. It isn't a huge deal, but in its own way it's a fitting metaphor for the entire Obama campaign.
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