'SOPHISTICATED' POLITICS
Our lesson of the week comes from Waring Howe Jr., a prominent South Carolina Democrat. Warning against nominating his party nominating former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, Mr Howe was quoted as follows by Salon.com.

Some of us may say, `Don't do to us what you did in '88; that is, give us a candidate you liked a lot but who's defeated in November.

So the moral of the lesson is: vote for a candidate you don't like much but who (the establishment thinks) has a chance of winning in November.

Why anyone would want a candidate they didn't like for to win in November was not made clear.