1968

Like Kevin Drum, I was thinking about the '68 Democratic race. In that one, you had an exciting candidate who was assassinated after winning the California primary and another candidate who moved the youth vote and drove the incumbent from the race, but ultimately couldn't win at a frenzied convention (inside as well as outside) where Hubert Humphrey, loathed by a sizable chunk of the party and who hadn't won a single primary, came out the winner.

The analogy certainly isn't perfect, or even close, really, but that thinking had me depressed this morning. Kevin, on the other hand, is always looking at the bright side of life.