6. When ethnically challenged EDWIN EDWARDS ran against former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard DAVID DUKE for Louisiana governor in 1991, the bumper stickers included "Vote for the crook--it's important" and "Vote for the lizard, not the wizard." The Lizard won.
7. The second spot on a ticket rarely gets much respect, but GROVER CLEVELAND's running mate, former Indiana governor Thomas Hendricks, might have been offended when 'We'll shout for our man and his important appendix! We'll whoop'er up lively for Cleveland and Hendricks."
8. Some slogans seem doomed from the start. In 1952, ADLAI STEVENSON, facing Dwight Eisenhower, had "You Never Had It So Good." In 1968, HUBERT HUMPHREY asked "Who but Hubert."
9. It's a good thing that slogans have an expiration date, like WOODROW WILSON's "He kept us out of war" which was only good until we went to World War I on April 6, 1917.
10. BARACK OBAMA was the "hope and change " candidate in 2008, but in 1900, President WILLIAM McKINLEY won re-election with the opposite slogan "Let well enough alone."
Another Great Job, Jacob and Benzkofer. --Cooter
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