The partisans at the Sheraton-Charles were predominantly scrubbed, well dressed and earnest, with the look of the dilettante in politics who feels he or she is doing a civic duty. Some of the women, steadying their nerves with whiskey, were already a trifle high. It was the kind of group that seldom has a winner, politics being what they are, and that is almost as astonished as pleased when it gets one.
- A.J. Liebling, The Earl of Louisiana, p.358 in The Sweet Science and Other Writings
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