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Season on the brink: two, four, six, eight, who's your favorite candidate?

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If you spent more than seven minutes reading Web sites during the Democratic presidential primaries, you probably encountered at least seven different sports analogies for Hillary Clinton's fourth-and-long, bottom-of-the-ninth campaign. The senator herself cranked up the Bill Conti theme and invoked Rocky while in Pennsylvania (ultimately fitting, given that the Italian Stallion lost his first shot at the title). Then, just a few days before the Kentucky Derby, she held up doomed filly Eight Belles as a source of inspiration (oops). I'm a little disappointed that I didn't hear her reference Friday Night Lights during the Texas vote: Not-to-be-believed, as-time-expires touchdowns are how the Dillon Panthers roll (plus, Bill Clinton is no one if not Buddy Garrity).

But I'd have to say that the game-winning goal came off a header from the New Republic blog, the Plank, which reported on June 3--the day Barack Obama clinched his play off berth--that the de feared Detroit Pistons were refusing to "drop out" of the...

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