Richard Nixon said it best. It makes no difference whether they hold your nose or whether they go would through a wall to vote for you. It counts the same with the X.
John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.
Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.
John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.
Tim Kaine kind of gives the warmer, human face of the Democrats.
Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was no humor in Cleveland. And they are not making this a Donald Trump.