Friday, October 29, 2010

"A little fakery makes the medicine go down"

By Wesley Pruden

"Enthusiasm is fine, but eventually it's time to take a campaign out and shoot it. We're getting close to that time. Outrage, irritation, polls, rallies and speeches finally grow old. Fortunately, it's almost time to vote.

Public-opinion polls can go only so far, but with modern polling methods that's far enough. If the Democrats pull a respectable result out of this campaign it will be the most stunning surprise since the old Literary Digest — which polled only its readers — predicted that Alf Landon would defeat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936."

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