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Boredom Sweepstakes

Dear John: But I can recite, without cue cards, who every losing presidential candidate was. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Charles Coatesworth Pinckney…

For the pi-minded, there is an interesting repetition in the list. Winfield Scott (Whig, 1852), Winfield Scott Hancock (Democrat, 1880).

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.
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