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Obama Clinched a Year Ago

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One year ago today, Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for president, ending his epic five-month contest with Hillary Clinton. (That article is dated June 4, but the news happened the previous day.)

How long was that race? Think back to January 3 of this year, before Obama was even inaugurated. That was five months ago. That’s the same length of time that elapsed between last year’s Iowa caucuses and the final two primaries in South Dakota and Montana.

Who knew that today, Hillary Clinton would be President Obama’s secretary of state?

Epstein II

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Another update to the previous post about Marcus Epstein: maybe the situation is murky after all. It’s not necessarily that the Internet is wrong but that UVa Law’s admissions office is using murky language. TPM reports that “Jason Wu Trujillo, UVA’s Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, now says Epstein will not enroll this fall, or ever.”

I emailed the admissions office yesterday and got back a similar response: “Marcus Epstein is not an enrolled student at the University of Virginia School of Law, nor do we expect him anytime in the future.”

His Facebook page still says he’s a “UVA Grad Student ’12.” So maybe he got in and then the admissions offer was revoked.