Lincoln Chafee Can't Find His Password, and Other Sad Items on the Cusp of His Announcement

The opposite of building anticipation.

With the set of stories that have come out today ahead of Lincoln Chafee’s planned announcement he’s running for the Democratic nomination, we can’t help but think of Chafee as this election cycle’s Eeyore.

Here’s what’s being written about him as we tick down the minutes to his speech at George Mason University:

1. No one’s paying attention

In the weeks following Chafee’s announcement that he was going to set up a presidential exploratory committee, there was, apparently, silence, according to AP’s Lisa Lerer.

“No

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