Ladies and gentlemen, let me ask those of you up front to move back so that everyone can see and hear, for I am about to perform a time-honored healing ritual of political journalists. With the able assistance of a corps of researchers, I shall produce a cornucopia of quotations bemoaning the state of our candidates and the campaign, only to reveal that--tah-dahhh!--these comments were about past political campaigns. Ready?
"The indifference of the public seems as marked as the excitement of the professionals seems feigned." That was from the campaign of 1880.
The candidate is "a highly impressionable person without...
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