Some observations

[Storebought]

That sounds like the Democratic Party should run as a pure patronage and wealth transfer mechanism, at least concerning the Midwest. Would Clinton have carried IA if she promised bigger ethanol subsidies? Would anyone have heard her through the din of the email scandals -- media postmortems (is that a correct Latin plural?) all say that she had trouble getting her message out. It all sounds very 1988 to me.