Big Swing State Primary Open Thread
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Sam Wang explains why even if Trump loses Ohio — which seems likely — he still wins.
For obvious reasons, I’ve been re-reading Dan Carter’s superb The Politics of Rage. This story of one of the legislators who ducked out of a vote seeking to amend the constitution to allow Wallace to run for a second consecutive term as governor (the amendment failed, which Wallace got around by having his wife Lurleen run instead, probably killing her in the process) seems applicable to other circumstances, including Donald Trump becoming the nominee of a major political party:
Another wavering senator also disappeared on the eve of the showdown; that man was last seen, said a colleague, “loading a case of scotch in the trunk of his car and heading south. He had not stopped driving or drinking until he reached a New Orleans “sanitarium,” where doctors reported he was in no condition to be moved.
…and, yes, as a commenter notes the Guardian is where to get your online results.