Erin McPike, RealClearPolitics
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- When NBC's Brian Williams announced on Nov. 4, 2008, that then-Sen. Barack Obama had won this state's 20 electoral votes, the ballrooms at the Capitol Hyatt Regency in Washington erupted. That was where the Democratic campaign committees were hosting their Election Night celebrations, and it was then that Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and their followers knew the party had clinched the White House. The official projection that Obama would become the 44th president came just moments later.It was here four years earlier, after an emotionally turbulent day for the...
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