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Summer Flings with Candidates Typically Don’t Last

July 9, 2015 at 3:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments

Boston Globe: “For the past three decades, there has been a rhythm in presidential politics. Every four years, in the summer before Iowa and New Hampshire vote, some candidate comes out of nowhere, surges in the polls, gets buzz, and then eventually returns to nowhere.”

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