The race for the Democratic nomination is beginning to look like a campaign of the living dead. Going into last week, the seven-man field had finally seemed to narrow to three alive-and-well candidates: Michael Dukakis, Jesse Jackson and Al Gore. But the Illinois primary somehow served as a reverse winnow, adding to the list of viable candidates rather than killing anyone off. Paul Simon, whose death in New Hampshire meant that he could not win a delegate anywhere on Super Tuesday, resurrected himself sufficiently to win as a favorite son. Richard Gephardt -- who was stillborn at the new year, resuscitated...
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