Sublime

We are persuaded by people we like—not by people we don’t.

After those telegrams, the White House had an accurate impression of Sam Rayburn as a Garner supporter, but it also had a false impression of Rayburn as Roosevelt’s enemy, as a leader not only of the Garner campaign but of the whole Stop Roosevelt movement, as the enemy of the man he not only idolized but whom he had, on a hundred occasions,

As for San Antonio—San Antonio where Lyndon Johnson “rode the polls” on Primary Day himself to oversee the vast West Side—Johnson’s deputies on the West Side themselves boast of the votes that were “switched” for him there, and the estimate most frequently given is 10,000. Not 87 votes “changed

a twist reminiscent of Nixon conspiring against the imaginary enemies he feared—taken to generating what they themselves have scornfully termed “fake news.” The Trump administration launched its own weekly news service on social media in 2017, dedicated entirely to positive coverage of the president. The same year, the Associated Press discovered

Meantime, I’m suffering a severe case of cognitive dissonance. The polls showing Clinton wildly ahead don’t match with what I see and hear in the real world as I travel the country, watch Trump’s rallies and Clinton’s speeches, and listen to friends and strangers of all stripes. So I begin examining the poll methodologies. I discover a lot that the

consultant Ed Rollins. Rollins was

Since few constraints limited Parr in the number of votes he reported (“he just counted ’em”), the effect of his turning in votes late would be that he could report almost any number of votes needed—which would mean that to a considerable extent the Duke of Duval could decide the result of any close statewide election all by himself; that the only

Republicans don’t just aim to cause fear, as some Democrats charge. They trigger the full range of intuitions described by Moral Foundations Theory. Like Democrats, they can talk about innocent victims (of harmful Democratic policies) and about fairness (particularly the unfairness of taking tax money from hardworking and prudent people to support