I believe that this word is deliberately chosen for its low impact–I believe that the lower-level Democratic voters, wink, wink, will not understand what it means and so therefore it is the least humiliating word with the lowest impact among his fans for admitting defeat, and that is why it was very carefully chosen for him and he is using it.
“shellacking.”
“shellacking.”
Great insight. You know they discussed this and thought about it a lot. Your logic sounds exactly like what their's must have been.
I thought Obama’s choice of the phrase “not “re-litigate” the past two years” to be even more telling.