[Ads-l] "unforced errors", subclass political campaigning

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jul 19 13:03:29 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Joel Berson wrote:

> On MSNBC last night Steve Schmidt, a Republican "campaign strategist",
> called missteps by the Trump campaign "unforced errors".
>

See my July 8 Wall St. Journal column on the transfer of "unforced errors"
from tennis to politics.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/unforced-errors-from-tennis-to-politics-1467986621

--bgz

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