re: #152 Testy Toad T

Given how stressful campaigning is, and how old candidates usually are, it’s sort of a wonder that we haven’t had one just kinda crap out and die on us in the middle of a campaign.

Maybe that says something about the level of medical care you can get if you’re rich.

There was once in the 1912 election when Taft’s running mate, James Sherman died before the election and he had to be replaced on the ballot. Another time I think Horace Greeley, Grant’s 1872 opponent died on election day or close to it. It does show how cruel fate can be thinking about that. I think about the old Nazis who were around my grandfather’s age and lived to get to know their grandchildren and how my own grandfather left us fairly young at the age of 66 and how it was a medical mistake (sending him home instead of observing him overnight) that killed him. I don’t hate the doctors for that but it just saddens me.