What Would We Do Without Those Who Also Ran?

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On the Sunday of Martin Luther King Day weekend I ran into the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio. He was in the checkout line of a New Balance factory outlet store in Brighton, Mass., alone. It was a reminder of how quickly the spotlight shifts away from politicians.

Six months ago, Mr. de Blasio was debating Vice President Biden in prime time on national television. If he wasn’t exactly drawing huge crowds on his campaign visits to Iowa and New Hampshire, well, at least he was followed by a pack of reporters and an entourage of aides, and his failure to generate huge crowds wound up being the topic of news articles read by many people.

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