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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

"He's a Blainiac, Blainiac on the floor"



Charles W. Calhoun reports that partisans of Maine Republican James G. Blaine, a presidential hopeful for most of 1870s and '80s (he was nominated in 1884 and lost to Grover Cleveland) were known as "Blainiacs".

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