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“They are showing that hell that is Portland,” he said, his voice dripping with irony.

To ready her body, she ordered in Japanese last night, then had somebody administer an IV vitamin drip as she thumbed through an issue of the New Yorker.

That critique assumes great masses of voters devour campaign memoirs with the same voracious appetite as those who surrender their Sundays to the Beltway chat shows, or mainline political news like a continuous IV drip.

And when they hear of complaints that this is not the paradise travellers signed up for, some point out that such comments are dripping with irony.

"When we win, it's not the system. When we lose, it's the system. I understand that," he said, the sarcasm dripping off his tongue.