Brevities

   It's easy to build support among supporters.
   It's a lot harder to persuade people who don't agree with you.

   "Men seldom seek a high degree of proof for what they already believe to be true."

 -- Keith Thomas, Oxford University

   "Vote early and often." -- Tammany Hall slogan.
   Tammany Hall is vacant. Nobody goes there anymore.
   Big city political machines: Forgotten, but not gone.
   The only poll that counts is the one on Election Day.

   Ballot stuffing is not a Thanksgiving dinner side dish, even though it does involve political turkeys.

   Beware of Qualifiers as ye would Absolutes. -- Pug Mahoney
   Qualifiers can creep into text and dilute a writer's prose. Using words and phrases like perhaps, more likely, presumably, probably, a likely hypothesis, would have been, must have been, and similar phrases all indicate that there is not enough certain evidence to support the claim. Most especially, writers should be wary of the word "may," since a skeptic can easily respond, "Or it may not."

   Senior citizens have excellent smoke detectors. They have decades of experience deciding when a candidate is Blowing Smoke at them.

   Republicans are up in arms about potential election fraud this year. Odd that they were not so concerned about election fraud in Florida 12 years ago.