A screenwriter's prediction

OK, if I were writing this movie, here's how it would go: HC doesn't quit, takes the primary all the way to the convention, where total chaos reigns, no nominee after two dozen ballots, when out of nowhere a compromise candidate emerges, played by whatever Jimmy Stewart clone we can cast, some minor unknown politician somewhere, who says "common sense" a lot and is photogenic with a cute smile but few words, tall, lean, a cowboy in a wrinkled suit, and ... well, you get the picture.

a politician is an arse
upon which everyone has sat
except a man

--e. e. cummings


"I don't want to encourage them." (A 90+ year old woman explaining to me why she stopped voting in her 70s.)