The Campaign Trail
Author Kinky Friedman"s "all politics is loco" memoir You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think--about his unsuccessful 2006 Texas gubernatorial bid is full of trademark quips from the master--"he suspects voter fraud because everyone he meets claims to have voted for him". Still, he did receive 12% of the vote owing to his common sense observations on a variety of subjects including school testing.
A famous election of long ago is chronicled in A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 in which Adams and Jefferson opposed each other for the presidency. It was aggressive, heated and, at times, a vicious campaign. Sound familiar?