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Steve Benen over at The Washington Monthly makes up his own narrative about the Nevada Senate race:

It's far too soon to say who'll win Nevada's U.S. Senate race -- with 15 days to go, the polls show Harry Reid and Sharron Angle just about tied -- but a few weeks from now, we may look back at Angle's appearance at Rancho High School as the turning point. It was her remarks at the school that helped make abundantly clear just how far gone the extremist candidate really is.

Emphasis mine. For the most part, I like Benen, but this is a big pet peeve when it comes to political punditry, along with using insincere self-righteous indignation and derogatory nicknames for your opposition. Olbermann did this all the time during the presidential campaign, describing every single McCain misstep as "what history may look back and describe as the point at which the Republicans lost the election." As if talking in the past tense about something that hadn't happened yet might make it inevitable.

I don't have any specific point to make about this. It just annoys the crap out of me.