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I just saw a show which talked about how Joseph Pulitzer reported on an extravagant dinner thrown in honor of James Blaine a few days before the election of 1884. At a time when a lot of the people were poor, this portrayed Blaine as a fat cat and turned the election against him. Supposedly this turned around Grover Cleveland’s moribund campaign and gave him the presidency.
What would have happened had Blaine not been in New York at the time and therefore not given Pulitzer an opportunity to report on this meal and save Cleveland?