expected.

Look, in every race, at least in the United States, there is a phantom candidate I call expected.

CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2008 2008

SCHNEIDER: She's been ahead in all the polls, which means she is really running not so much against Obama, but against someone called expected.

CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2008 2008

SCHNEIDER: She's been ahead in all the polls, which means she is really running not so much against Obama, but against someone called expected.

CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2008 2008

So those low turnout, Mitt Romney, you know, was running against the candidate I call expected.

CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2007 2007

BILL SCHNEIDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Every candidate is competing against a candidate name expected.

CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2007 2007

Every race has a phantom candidate called expected.

CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2006 2006

WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Wolf, there's a phantom candidate in every election called expected.

CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2006 2006

POLITICAL ANALYST: Wolf, there's a phantom candidate in every election called expected.

CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2006 2006

Warner: Well, I haven't lost yet, but that was kind of expected.

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Meanwhile, in virtually all the states he has won, Obama has beaten Clinton by double digits, and yet that is not seen as anything but "expected."

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