"What do men gain by elective goverments, if fools and knaves have the same chance to obtain the highest office, as honest men?"
--Noah Webster to Thomas Jefferson, 1801
I am the author of Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential History, available now from Quirk Books. This blog, like the book, takes a historical look at dirty politics----and the 2008 Presidential contest is already building up to be one of the dirtiest in history-- showing that, much as we bemoan how contentious our elections have become, dirty presidential contests are as American as apple pie and television.
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