En Vogue words: Here are two you may need to know

During this somewhat less than brief primary election cycle, two words have really caught my attention.
I'm a political junkie and a wordsmith, of sorts, so I know the use of "metrics" and "vetted" are something new within the political punditry.
It's fascinating to think that the use of these two words came to be en vogue among the pundits in such short order.
For me, a part-time cynic, the reason for their use is simple: high-minded types enjoy using words that their "common folk" cannot understand.
And so, to undercut their elitism, I offer this:

Metrics: These are merely standards of measurement like, for instance, tracking polls.

Example from Slate.com:"Anyway, it isn't completely true that the Clinton campaign no longer believes in arithmetic benchmarks. It would be more accurate to say that it no longer believes in the ones that matter. Clinton is still more than happy to sling irrelevant metrics."

Vetted: In this context, the term simply means "validated"--i.e. she has been around long enough to have been critiqued from every angle. She's a known quantity, essentially.

Example from newspaper in Durham, NC: "And despite Clinton's arguments that she has already been vetted, Obama suggested that a Republican opponent would be more likely to bring up past Clinton scandals that have been largely absent from the Democratic primary campaign."

If you don't read newspapers, just watch MSNBC, CNN or Fox News political coverage and I guarantee you will hear one of both of these terms more than once.