The toy shelves of any large department store these days are stacked high with tactical games of war, sports and business, all with complex rules designed to reduce the element of chance and create opportunities for individual strategy. The latest additions to the list are three new political games with definite election-year appeal. In some ways, their verisimilitude to the realities of real life politics is downright cynical. The best candidate is not always the winner; sometimes it is the candidate with the most money.
WHO CAN BEAT NIXON? (Harrison-Blaine; $7) bears a certain resemblance to that perennial family favorite, Monopoly. Up...