Capitalist: They Have a Case of Beltway-itis

The 1960 US presidential race was interesting for various reasons. On the Democratic Party side the race to become its presidential candidate was characterised by a couple of hard-fought primary elections between John Kennedy and a man called Hubert Humphrey (basically forgotten by history these days) but the other main contestant was Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic majority leader in the US Senate. It was odd because Johnson not only did not enter any primary elections, but fully expected to win.