So Trump took to the campaign trail and did what? Air his usual grievances, lies and bullshit to what? A total of maybe 600 people between the HS gym in NH and the rotunda conference room in SC? The mojo is gone, he is only viable because of the corporate media and a horde of violent racist followers.
In 2016 it was Facebook that launched him, but Facebook is fading even faster than Trump, so even if the Orange Grifter decides to reactivate his "presence" there, it won't have much of an impact. Stick a fork in him...
See my comment Yahoo rejected about Santos. These websites are run by the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse when taking a break from the Tea Party (no pun intended)?
Trump sucked all the air out of the room in the 2016 campaign because he was the new political face, who lacked a regulator for his mouth and refused to act as a normal national political candidate would, leaving aside the so-called policies he spouted. The national press ate that up - it sold papers and magazines and bought millions of clicks and eyeballs to TV news and online media. THEY normalized his monstrous behaviors and proclivities - he was a train wreck they couldn't keep their eyes off of or their reports from covering.
The same won't likely happen with him this time around, at least not to the same degree, because four years of The Former Guy as president and a failed insurrection have cooled most people's ardor.
BUT, the same could happen again with another candidate from far out in left field. It may not be the dull, boring and fascistic DeathSantis, or the rapturous and pompous Pompeo, but it could easily be whoever in the minds of the MSM becomes the next new shiny thing, no matter how terrible that person is as a candidate much less a human being.
That is what the voters of this country need to guard against - being taken in by the media over an individual the media has anointed as the next big thing, no matter how terrible that "thing" may objectively be.
you're completely right, Lucian. disgusting is the word for these campaigns in the best of times. I'd prefer not to hear ever again how much money a candidate has raised. and it seems that the MSM sources we pay the most attention to are not about to change their ways. it's obvious to anyone with anything resembling an eye that those sources are being guided by the principle that "T**** is good for ratings." good to know he cares so much about Social Security and Medicare; I suppose he hasn't mentioned Medicaid because it's for "losers." it's obvious to most of us that his support for those two programs came about entirely because his potential opponents for the nomination want to get rid of them and somebody close to him let him know that people our age tend to vote in large numbers. I'm not sure he knew that in his previous campaigns. or I suppose what I actually mean is that he didn't express all this love for those two programs BEFORE. I'm still convinced he doesn't actually "know" anything.
yeah, it's gonna be a bumpy road. and for such a long time...
actually, MOST people don't have any idea how many things Medicaid covers. I had no idea myself, until I found myself working in hospitals and a nursing home, where there was definitely a "need to know.". to most people, it's just the health insurance policy that covers poor people, period.
...and oh yeah...what's the deal with people suddenly calling their opponents "communists and Marxists." since when do those two things have to be separated for people who already have basically no idea what they mean?
Trigger words, that's all the ammo they have. I doubt they have the vision to understand what Progressives, or even Democrats want most. They are the people who think Anarchists are synonymous with chaos , when they themselves are the symptom of the lack of respect for all individuals.
it was ever thus, but once upon a time, just calling someone a "communist" sufficed as a political slur. adding "Marxism" to that slur makes it sound even worse. after all, all communists are Marxists, although there are plenty of Marxists who aren't communists. when I was going to graduate school in the '70s, it suddenly became very fashionable to describe oneself as a "Marxist," just like in the mid-'60s, French "intellectuals" liked to describe themselves as "Maoists." actually, I just thought of a sort of sitcom (I use the term very loosely) in which guys like Sartre and Godard (both of whom I continue to revere for other stuff, so I'm not exactly trashing them in global terms) find themselves in China in that same period. I don't think it would have worked out too well for them.
I really have a problem with self labeling based on ideologies. Words are powerful, and I think such labels consciously, unconsciously, or divisively, isolates us from others, especially those who are not familiar with what those labels mean. The best defense of being hit with the word Communist, or Marxist, would be to ask what a Marxist is, or what a Communist is. Of course that doesn't work if they're not being lobed at you, but rather, being used as ammo to vilify you to the sheeple.
I'm glad my "Trotskyist phase" didn't last long, but soon became a matter of watching the true believers wondering how much of the completely unrealistic, doctrinaire bilge about "the coming revolution" they actually believed, and why.
Was also reassuring to see none of them were actually organizing any violence --- since I would have had to report that to the relevant authorities, of course --- and would have in fact immediately denounced it, since the central idea was the workers organized in labor unions would accept the Trotskyists as a "vanguard" and so on and so on. Then, mirabile dictu, the revolution!
When I was a student antiwar activist, "the Trots" were the reasonable ones in the lefty crowd, and pretty good organizers too. Progressive Labor, the Spartacist League, and the remnants of Weatherman, OTOH -- they were crazy. At mass demos some of them would try to provoke the cops to beat up on the peacekeepers, on the theory that this would "radicalize" us.
I never experienced that from the Sparts, but the rest, oh yeah. They had completely lost the plot, it was sad to observe people who should definitely have understood how self-destructive and pointless their "strategy" was completely enthralled by it.
I do recall those days when espousing leftist ideas could label one as a Marxist or communist. I worked on a university campus in the 70’s, and there were several groups all vying to be the true Marxists.
I spent the summer of 1972 as a new graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, but lived in my mother's empty condo in North Miami Beach. It never occurred to me to apply for press credentials to both parties conventions in Miami Beach that summer --I could have gotten them, probably--but I covered that vibe of the conventions for the counter-cultural Colorado Daily. I was under the influence of gonzo more as technique than substance. I should post those to my Substack. They were really interesting times. Thanks for the memory jog, Lucian.
I'm all for beating up on the press guys who drank the Trump Kool-Aid, and went into the tank for him. They're a bunch of lazy and corrupt motherfuckers who deserve to be shunned by professional media outlets.
absolutely, Arthur. bot very probably the more destructive ones are the ones in respected media outlets who'll tell you in half a second how much they hate TFF and don't take him seriously, etc. etc. but then write about him endlessly.
or are THOSE guys included in the "lazy and corrupt motherfuckers" category?
for my part, I'd say yes.
and since I'm here...I honestly never thought I'd be in any way shocked by anything I found out about the extent of Barr's vile collaboration with TFF, which he thought he could undo by splitting at the very last available moment and putting on a good show for the 1/6 Committee. but I guess I was wrong. these new disclosures by Berman in HIS new book have succeeded in shocking me. these guys--and the whole situation--make Nixon look like a seven-year-old kid shoplifting wax lips and Bazooka bubble gum from the corner candy store.
Call it the titillation follies.The serial 'shocked, shocked' books fail to mention a collection of guys at the apex of their career paths, and nowhere to go but down. They made a pact with evil, and now there's the Devil to pay. From BillyBarr1 in the first Bush administration, they were on the hook. Barr has the morals of Cesáre Borgia: High intelligence, low morals, and utter ruthlessness. In his first appointment as Attorney General , Barr was 29 years old, and he thoroughly immersed himself in the powers of his office. He governed by duplicity and trickery, talents he built upon while serving Trump. He abandoned Trump only after he concluded that Trump stood no chance of making his case for a stolen election in the courts.
yes to all of the above. another funny thing is that in his book (according to reviewers...I'm no way going to waste my time reading it...it's close to 700 pages) he likes to stress his "hardscrabble upbringing," living on Riverside Drive and attending private schools and Columbia. we're not talking the Depression, either. Barr is a year younger than I am.
I'm stunned! In 1956, for a month I was a 14 year old page in the Illinois State Senate. In the 1930's my grandfather (lawyer and bank owner) had been President of the Illinois State Senate. We were Democrats from the Chicago suburbs. Springfield was as segregated as any place in Alabama. I was shocked.
As sort of a joke, they assigned me to the Republican side of the Senate. The GOP Whip assigned me to watch over 5 old senators who had been there since Roosevelt was President; Teddy, not Franklin; ALL from Southern Illinois. They had no idea what was going on, but the Whip gave me a list of votes and how they should vote. I flicked the Yea and Nay switches as ordered. I joked to my Grandfather that I "controlled" 10% of the Illinois Senate.
I wonder if Carville's vivid description of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between) doesn't apply to 49 other states too. Usually one seems to be the state capital plus another city or two, sometimes the seat of the state university.
Wait! What? The last campaign ended????? I thought it had all become one big, long, run-on sentence! Please bring in a grammarian to put some punctuation marks into the election cycle. I need to take a breath!
Hunter S.Thompson wrote "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72" , published in 1973. Thompson followed along on the campaign trail the with a journalist's cynicism and nose for facts. But underneath, I think, Thompson had a childlike yearning for something better from our nation. (A yearning, by the way, that I also share, even after all these awful decades.) "Fear and Loathing" is a truthful, very important book.
Maybe it was Thompson's unfulfilled yearning, or maybe it was the alcohol to which he turned to deaden it. He shot himself in the head at 67, on February 20, 2005.
There is a caution for all of us in Thompson's personal tragedy. The more you care, the worse it hurts. To watch this current cynical performance that is our political system is to expose your soul to despair. So take frequent breaks, take an entire days off without reading or hearing anything about what they did that day.
There isn't a single other democracy that wastes time and an extraordinary amount of money (that could be better used for other things) like the US does, for election campaigns that go on for YEARS!!!!!!! I can't add enough bangs! This is obscene.
I foolishly thought that once the 2022 Congressional election was over I wouldn’t be bombarded with emails from candidates begging me for money. Silly me! I continue to get at least 20 emails a day from Congress members and political groups begging for money. Sorry! I’m giving my Act Blue account a well deserved break.
And the endless text messages, too, which really bother me! I've blocked 100+ numbers.
Why do I get them? Because in 2012 I donated to Obama, AND I've signed petitions since then. I've stopped donating, and more important, signing ANY petitions.
I saw that coming online, Rich, and never signed up for anything I thought even possibly could put my contact info into a partisan database. So far, so good.
You know it! I should think six weeks tops would be all the time necessary to conduct a national election. It's patently ridiculous how the eternal campaign has evolved.
I think the grownups amongst us know that pre-election coverage goes on much too long, as do many of the related think pieces, not to mention the candidates.
(I suppose the word “think” ought to be between quotation marks.) To tell you the truth, the Brits have it about right: 6 weeks from beginning to end. I must say I was a boy on the bus for three days, and the “bus” was a car, then a helicopter. That was a lot of fun because the candidate, on whom I had a crush, was in and out of the race in six weeks. That was Harold Hughes from Iowa - first as their Governor, then Senator. He was a doll of a guy who was mystical, as well as a 12-stepper. The helicopter satisfied the mystical part. That way, he said, he could commune with the trees. I am not kidding. He also said we were drawn to each other because we’d known each other in past lives. He said he was a janitor in a Temple, and I was a holy woman. (I have to say that was a nice change from Shirley MacLaine, who had been Cleopatra and people of similar rank in previous lives; plus, I couldn’t imagine another candidate -- ever -- talking about communing with trees.) But returning to Mr. T.’s remarks about about boys on busses, candidates, and the political press, it’s become a kind of ritual ... ergo hard to change. So leave their daily dispatches, and the musings of old-timers, to those who are so thirsty for political “news” that they’ll read, or listen, to anything. I have outgrown that, and maybe you have, too. So let us leave “the boys” to their late nights in bars, lost luggage, dirty clothes, filing stories, and sleep deprivation. If something momentous actually gets said, you’ll hear about it.
My grandfather was elected (again, he served in the late 30s and was Speaker of the Iowa House) to the Iowa House of Representatives, from Cedar County/West Branch, the year Hughes became governor, in 1962.
I have a note that excuses me from all PE classes and presidential election coverage until after the candidates have been selected and completed one debate. I do like Pud and Fat, though.
So Trump took to the campaign trail and did what? Air his usual grievances, lies and bullshit to what? A total of maybe 600 people between the HS gym in NH and the rotunda conference room in SC? The mojo is gone, he is only viable because of the corporate media and a horde of violent racist followers.
He's testing his Orange level for the Big Time in the hustings.
In 2016 it was Facebook that launched him, but Facebook is fading even faster than Trump, so even if the Orange Grifter decides to reactivate his "presence" there, it won't have much of an impact. Stick a fork in him...
They are on his side now and overcompensating, I have a 30 day FB jail term for NADA.
See my comment Yahoo rejected about Santos. These websites are run by the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse when taking a break from the Tea Party (no pun intended)?
Trump sucked all the air out of the room in the 2016 campaign because he was the new political face, who lacked a regulator for his mouth and refused to act as a normal national political candidate would, leaving aside the so-called policies he spouted. The national press ate that up - it sold papers and magazines and bought millions of clicks and eyeballs to TV news and online media. THEY normalized his monstrous behaviors and proclivities - he was a train wreck they couldn't keep their eyes off of or their reports from covering.
The same won't likely happen with him this time around, at least not to the same degree, because four years of The Former Guy as president and a failed insurrection have cooled most people's ardor.
BUT, the same could happen again with another candidate from far out in left field. It may not be the dull, boring and fascistic DeathSantis, or the rapturous and pompous Pompeo, but it could easily be whoever in the minds of the MSM becomes the next new shiny thing, no matter how terrible that person is as a candidate much less a human being.
That is what the voters of this country need to guard against - being taken in by the media over an individual the media has anointed as the next big thing, no matter how terrible that "thing" may objectively be.
Maybe we're in for a hairpulling, fingernails scratching slut fight between Lake and MTG for VP? Loverly.
Trump has already hinted MTG not worthy.
That's rather sexist. Let's not insult women using misogyny.
No one could Out Bozo the Master.
you're completely right, Lucian. disgusting is the word for these campaigns in the best of times. I'd prefer not to hear ever again how much money a candidate has raised. and it seems that the MSM sources we pay the most attention to are not about to change their ways. it's obvious to anyone with anything resembling an eye that those sources are being guided by the principle that "T**** is good for ratings." good to know he cares so much about Social Security and Medicare; I suppose he hasn't mentioned Medicaid because it's for "losers." it's obvious to most of us that his support for those two programs came about entirely because his potential opponents for the nomination want to get rid of them and somebody close to him let him know that people our age tend to vote in large numbers. I'm not sure he knew that in his previous campaigns. or I suppose what I actually mean is that he didn't express all this love for those two programs BEFORE. I'm still convinced he doesn't actually "know" anything.
yeah, it's gonna be a bumpy road. and for such a long time...
He apparently is unaware of the powerful nursing home industry which benefits from Medicaid.
actually, MOST people don't have any idea how many things Medicaid covers. I had no idea myself, until I found myself working in hospitals and a nursing home, where there was definitely a "need to know.". to most people, it's just the health insurance policy that covers poor people, period.
I respect your skills. You are a very engaging writer but I just couldn't bear to read this. I'm already exhausted. I just can't do it all over again.
...and oh yeah...what's the deal with people suddenly calling their opponents "communists and Marxists." since when do those two things have to be separated for people who already have basically no idea what they mean?
It’s an easy shot to call your opponent a Communist or Marxist when you have no real criticism based on the facts or the opposing party’s platform.
Trigger words, that's all the ammo they have. I doubt they have the vision to understand what Progressives, or even Democrats want most. They are the people who think Anarchists are synonymous with chaos , when they themselves are the symptom of the lack of respect for all individuals.
it was ever thus, but once upon a time, just calling someone a "communist" sufficed as a political slur. adding "Marxism" to that slur makes it sound even worse. after all, all communists are Marxists, although there are plenty of Marxists who aren't communists. when I was going to graduate school in the '70s, it suddenly became very fashionable to describe oneself as a "Marxist," just like in the mid-'60s, French "intellectuals" liked to describe themselves as "Maoists." actually, I just thought of a sort of sitcom (I use the term very loosely) in which guys like Sartre and Godard (both of whom I continue to revere for other stuff, so I'm not exactly trashing them in global terms) find themselves in China in that same period. I don't think it would have worked out too well for them.
I really have a problem with self labeling based on ideologies. Words are powerful, and I think such labels consciously, unconsciously, or divisively, isolates us from others, especially those who are not familiar with what those labels mean. The best defense of being hit with the word Communist, or Marxist, would be to ask what a Marxist is, or what a Communist is. Of course that doesn't work if they're not being lobed at you, but rather, being used as ammo to vilify you to the sheeple.
I'm glad my "Trotskyist phase" didn't last long, but soon became a matter of watching the true believers wondering how much of the completely unrealistic, doctrinaire bilge about "the coming revolution" they actually believed, and why.
Was also reassuring to see none of them were actually organizing any violence --- since I would have had to report that to the relevant authorities, of course --- and would have in fact immediately denounced it, since the central idea was the workers organized in labor unions would accept the Trotskyists as a "vanguard" and so on and so on. Then, mirabile dictu, the revolution!
I knew some members of the Spartacist League from the union. I recall that a common phrase of many of the lefties was “After the revolution!”
When I was a student antiwar activist, "the Trots" were the reasonable ones in the lefty crowd, and pretty good organizers too. Progressive Labor, the Spartacist League, and the remnants of Weatherman, OTOH -- they were crazy. At mass demos some of them would try to provoke the cops to beat up on the peacekeepers, on the theory that this would "radicalize" us.
I never experienced that from the Sparts, but the rest, oh yeah. They had completely lost the plot, it was sad to observe people who should definitely have understood how self-destructive and pointless their "strategy" was completely enthralled by it.
I do recall those days when espousing leftist ideas could label one as a Marxist or communist. I worked on a university campus in the 70’s, and there were several groups all vying to be the true Marxists.
Facts? TFG?
The 2024 presidential race is already giving me a headache and upset stomach. And it won't be getting better in any way....
you and me both. and I bet we're not the only ones here...
Nope!
I spent the summer of 1972 as a new graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, but lived in my mother's empty condo in North Miami Beach. It never occurred to me to apply for press credentials to both parties conventions in Miami Beach that summer --I could have gotten them, probably--but I covered that vibe of the conventions for the counter-cultural Colorado Daily. I was under the influence of gonzo more as technique than substance. I should post those to my Substack. They were really interesting times. Thanks for the memory jog, Lucian.
I'm all for beating up on the press guys who drank the Trump Kool-Aid, and went into the tank for him. They're a bunch of lazy and corrupt motherfuckers who deserve to be shunned by professional media outlets.
absolutely, Arthur. bot very probably the more destructive ones are the ones in respected media outlets who'll tell you in half a second how much they hate TFF and don't take him seriously, etc. etc. but then write about him endlessly.
or are THOSE guys included in the "lazy and corrupt motherfuckers" category?
for my part, I'd say yes.
and since I'm here...I honestly never thought I'd be in any way shocked by anything I found out about the extent of Barr's vile collaboration with TFF, which he thought he could undo by splitting at the very last available moment and putting on a good show for the 1/6 Committee. but I guess I was wrong. these new disclosures by Berman in HIS new book have succeeded in shocking me. these guys--and the whole situation--make Nixon look like a seven-year-old kid shoplifting wax lips and Bazooka bubble gum from the corner candy store.
Call it the titillation follies.The serial 'shocked, shocked' books fail to mention a collection of guys at the apex of their career paths, and nowhere to go but down. They made a pact with evil, and now there's the Devil to pay. From BillyBarr1 in the first Bush administration, they were on the hook. Barr has the morals of Cesáre Borgia: High intelligence, low morals, and utter ruthlessness. In his first appointment as Attorney General , Barr was 29 years old, and he thoroughly immersed himself in the powers of his office. He governed by duplicity and trickery, talents he built upon while serving Trump. He abandoned Trump only after he concluded that Trump stood no chance of making his case for a stolen election in the courts.
yes to all of the above. another funny thing is that in his book (according to reviewers...I'm no way going to waste my time reading it...it's close to 700 pages) he likes to stress his "hardscrabble upbringing," living on Riverside Drive and attending private schools and Columbia. we're not talking the Depression, either. Barr is a year younger than I am.
Who won, Pud or Fat? The world waits and wonders.
Pud.
“Views Differ on Shape of Planet” — because flat-earthers deserve to have their views respected too!
30 miles North, West, or South of Chicago, you may as well be in Alabama. It has been that way for over a 100 years. Of course "Fat" won!
Nope. Pud won. It was 1972, not 2020.
I'm stunned! In 1956, for a month I was a 14 year old page in the Illinois State Senate. In the 1930's my grandfather (lawyer and bank owner) had been President of the Illinois State Senate. We were Democrats from the Chicago suburbs. Springfield was as segregated as any place in Alabama. I was shocked.
As sort of a joke, they assigned me to the Republican side of the Senate. The GOP Whip assigned me to watch over 5 old senators who had been there since Roosevelt was President; Teddy, not Franklin; ALL from Southern Illinois. They had no idea what was going on, but the Whip gave me a list of votes and how they should vote. I flicked the Yea and Nay switches as ordered. I joked to my Grandfather that I "controlled" 10% of the Illinois Senate.
I wonder if Carville's vivid description of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between) doesn't apply to 49 other states too. Usually one seems to be the state capital plus another city or two, sometimes the seat of the state university.
"Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72" is all I have to say. Well that and "I'm not looking forward to the upcoming/ongoing election season."
Wait! What? The last campaign ended????? I thought it had all become one big, long, run-on sentence! Please bring in a grammarian to put some punctuation marks into the election cycle. I need to take a breath!
Hunter S.Thompson wrote "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72" , published in 1973. Thompson followed along on the campaign trail the with a journalist's cynicism and nose for facts. But underneath, I think, Thompson had a childlike yearning for something better from our nation. (A yearning, by the way, that I also share, even after all these awful decades.) "Fear and Loathing" is a truthful, very important book.
Maybe it was Thompson's unfulfilled yearning, or maybe it was the alcohol to which he turned to deaden it. He shot himself in the head at 67, on February 20, 2005.
There is a caution for all of us in Thompson's personal tragedy. The more you care, the worse it hurts. To watch this current cynical performance that is our political system is to expose your soul to despair. So take frequent breaks, take an entire days off without reading or hearing anything about what they did that day.
If your favorite team loses, catch a Trump speech...
There isn't a single other democracy that wastes time and an extraordinary amount of money (that could be better used for other things) like the US does, for election campaigns that go on for YEARS!!!!!!! I can't add enough bangs! This is obscene.
I foolishly thought that once the 2022 Congressional election was over I wouldn’t be bombarded with emails from candidates begging me for money. Silly me! I continue to get at least 20 emails a day from Congress members and political groups begging for money. Sorry! I’m giving my Act Blue account a well deserved break.
And the endless text messages, too, which really bother me! I've blocked 100+ numbers.
Why do I get them? Because in 2012 I donated to Obama, AND I've signed petitions since then. I've stopped donating, and more important, signing ANY petitions.
Just reply STOP to the text messages. I rarely get texts from campaigns now. Still lots of emails, which I delete.
I saw that coming online, Rich, and never signed up for anything I thought even possibly could put my contact info into a partisan database. So far, so good.
Wish we could call an election, solved in 3 weeks like the Brits.
You know it! I should think six weeks tops would be all the time necessary to conduct a national election. It's patently ridiculous how the eternal campaign has evolved.
I think the grownups amongst us know that pre-election coverage goes on much too long, as do many of the related think pieces, not to mention the candidates.
(I suppose the word “think” ought to be between quotation marks.) To tell you the truth, the Brits have it about right: 6 weeks from beginning to end. I must say I was a boy on the bus for three days, and the “bus” was a car, then a helicopter. That was a lot of fun because the candidate, on whom I had a crush, was in and out of the race in six weeks. That was Harold Hughes from Iowa - first as their Governor, then Senator. He was a doll of a guy who was mystical, as well as a 12-stepper. The helicopter satisfied the mystical part. That way, he said, he could commune with the trees. I am not kidding. He also said we were drawn to each other because we’d known each other in past lives. He said he was a janitor in a Temple, and I was a holy woman. (I have to say that was a nice change from Shirley MacLaine, who had been Cleopatra and people of similar rank in previous lives; plus, I couldn’t imagine another candidate -- ever -- talking about communing with trees.) But returning to Mr. T.’s remarks about about boys on busses, candidates, and the political press, it’s become a kind of ritual ... ergo hard to change. So leave their daily dispatches, and the musings of old-timers, to those who are so thirsty for political “news” that they’ll read, or listen, to anything. I have outgrown that, and maybe you have, too. So let us leave “the boys” to their late nights in bars, lost luggage, dirty clothes, filing stories, and sleep deprivation. If something momentous actually gets said, you’ll hear about it.
Senator Gary Hart said he believed the only Democrat who might have beaten Nixon in 1972 was Senator Hughes:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hughes
My grandfather was elected (again, he served in the late 30s and was Speaker of the Iowa House) to the Iowa House of Representatives, from Cedar County/West Branch, the year Hughes became governor, in 1962.
I was happy to see this. Thank you.
I have a note that excuses me from all PE classes and presidential election coverage until after the candidates have been selected and completed one debate. I do like Pud and Fat, though.