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Well, so much for the predictions of a dull, boring and uneventful February. So much for the predictions that Romney’s victories in Florida and Nevada meant that he had the nomination all locked up.

Voters do have this quite irritating trait of sticking it to the Washington “know-it-all” class. What was so certain, as jabbered about on cable news talk-fests and in columns like this one, suddenly gets turned on its head. When will we ever learn to avoid being so arrogantly certain of political outcomes?

Hillary Clinton was the inevitable nominee; John McCain was dead in the Republican primary; Barack Obama was going to have the nomination sewed up after New Hampshire; Howard Dean was cruising with little opposition. On and on.

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