14/02/2026 08:58

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  'I don't think so. '   It took him two minutes during which Bosch saw him open several different files, take out photos and create a short stack. We topped out at more than 540,000 in 1969, before reality finally forced us to change course. In politics, when you find yourself in a hole, the first rule is to quit digging; if you’re blind to the possibility of error or determined not to admit it, you just look for a bigger shovel.

Eight states of the Old South still had two Democratic senators each, down from ten before the 1966 elections, but most of them were conservative segregationists. I liked and admired them because they lived their faith. The conventional wisdom was that Pryor was in trouble because, as an incumbent governor, he should have polled well over 40 percent. But even with the small stuff, he spoke with an openness, a depth, a lack of defensiveness I’d never heard before.