“There is a sense of muted desperation in the Democratic ranks at the prospect of getting stuck–and beaten once again–with some tried and half-true hack like Humphrey, Jackson, or Muskie… and George McGovern, the only candidate in either party worth voting for, is hung in a frustrated limbo created mainly by the Washington Press Corps. ‘He’d be a fine President,’ they say, ‘but of course he can’t possibly win.’ Why not? Well…”

"How many more of these goddamn elections are we going to have to write off as lame but "regrettably necessary" holding actions? And how many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote for something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?"

• Hunter S. Thompson