Lowered expectations

Rep Ted Strickland's partners in the media have alreday begun to play the "Lowered Expectations" line. Mad TV, Fox Television Corp's equivalent to NBC's Saturday Night Live, has a freqent skit on their show, called "Lowered Expectations," where obvious losers, i.e., poorly camoflauged cross-dressers, join a dating service and advertise their talents and yearn for Mr. or Mrs. Right.

Such is what is happening in, e.g., the Columbus Dispatch where the authors show how Strickland beat the odds in 1992 to win a race, lost in '94, surprisingly won in '96, won more convincingly in '98, and now runs in uncontested races. Don't forget about "Mad TV" when reading these stories.

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