“You hick! I’ll be back pulling strings to get guys elected mayor and governor before you ever get a 10-buck raise. Yeah, how many of those guys in office owe everything to me. I made them. Yeah, I made ’em, just like a — like a tailor makes a suit of clothes. I take a nobody, see? Teach him what to say. Get his name in the papers and pay for his campaign expenses. Dish out a lotta groceries and coal. Get my boys to bring the voters out. And then count the votes over and over again till they added up right and he was elected.”
-Johnny Rocco, Key Largo (1948)
Mass mail in ballots in the forties would have made Rocco’s job easier.
Seen on Instapundit.
EVEN THE MEDIA SAYS “PROJECTED RESULTS” BUT THEY’RE PUSHING EVERYWHERE WITH THIS IS INEVITABLE. HAVE YOU KNOWN THE LEFT FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS. THEY ONLY PUSH THINGS THIS HARD WHEN THEY NEED TO GET IN YOUR HEADS AND MAKE YOU QUIT EARLY: