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• As expected, the victorious candidate in a particularly dirty recent political campaign, won by a mudslide.
• A political campaign is when the candidate tells what he stands for and the election is when the voters tell if they can stand for his being elected.
• Law of Political Machinery: When no viable candidate exists someone will nominate a Kennedy.
• Just follow the money in a political campaign and you'll follow the power.
• While the people try to determine what the candidate stands for, he candidate tries to determine what the people will stand for.
  -- Zabel's Political Observatio...
• Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
  -- Mark B. Cohe...
• As a candidate for national elective office the most dangerous thing you can do is say something during the campaign that the people might remember.
  -- Eugene McCarthy...
• Well, we in the Adder Party are going to fight this campaign on issues, not personalities.
  Why's that? Because our candidate doesn't _have_ a personality....
• The candidate who is expected to do well because of experience and reputation (Dougla
  Nixon) must do better than well, while the candidate expected to fare poorly (Lincoln, Kennedy) can put points on the media board by simply surviving....