The current grumbling about the votes or caucuses in Iowa is evidence that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Perhaps some shenanigans were pulled. But then, most of them are politicians—so what do you expect?

How about this: Eugene Debs is the only person to run a presidential campaign while serving time in prison. He ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920. (Does that bring to mind someone running today?) Debs got a large number of voters to vote for him, but lost to Warren G. Harding, who received more. Debs was serving a ten-year sentence for publicly criticizing the government’s highly questionable use of the Espionage Act to prosecute citizens.

Today we have an avowed Socialist running against a woman who is looking at violation of laws and procedures for questionable use of private servers for her convenience—which is against the law.