muskie

In 1972, Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie was the odds-on favorite to win the Democratic Presidential nomination.

The “crying” incident is thought to have hurt Muskie in the primary--which he won handily, but with under 50 percent of the vote.

Americans get tired of front-runners (see, e.g., Ed Muskie, Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, and Mario Cuomo).

We beat Muskie in early 1972 and we beat Humphrey and Jackson in the spring and summer of 1972.

And that unsuspicious old man went back home and bragged of his thirteen-pound muskie, while the Preacher said never a word.

He was trolling with a steel rod and plenty of line out, when a careless muskie grabbed the hook.

It was a muskie that furnished us with an introduction to those tricky scales which some unregenerate fishermen are said to use.