Still, the campaign was grounded in those summer days by a series of bad narratives: Clinton would win because she was inevitable. Obama would lose because young people never turn out to vote. Clinton was racking up endorsements from the party elite. Obama wouldn’t get black votes because he wasn’t black enough (“I’m black enough when I try to get a cab,” he told us). Clinton passed the commander in chief test. Obama was untested and, well, different. None of that mattered to us. The office was filled with young people who spent all day staring at their laptops, communicating by Instant
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