muskie

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• In 1972, Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie was the odds-on favorite to win the Democratic Presidential nomination.

• The “crying” incident is thought to have hurt Muskie in the primary--which he won handily, but with under 50 percent of the vote.

• Americans get tired of front-runners (see, e.g., Ed Muskie, Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, and Mario Cuomo).

• We beat Muskie in early 1972 and we beat Humphrey and Jackson in the spring and summer of 1972.

• And that unsuspicious old man went back home and bragged of his thirteen-pound muskie, while the Preacher said never a word.

• He was trolling with a steel rod and plenty of line out, when a careless muskie grabbed the hook.

• It was a muskie that furnished us with an introduction to those tricky scales which some unregenerate fishermen are said to use.