Nevertheless, He Persisted

Some people are saving the Sunday, November 8, 2020 New York Times with the banner "Biden Beats Trump" headline. The one I am thinking of framing and putting up on the wall, though, is the front page of the Thursday, February 27, 2020 Times. That is the one with the front-page headline that says, "Biden's Tuesday Could Turn Out Far From Super."

The dispatch on that February front page began by sketching a contrast. At Biden's vacant East Los Angeles campaign office, "there was no sign of life … A metal gate out front was padlocked shut, with a missed-delivery notice from the Postal Service wedged into it." A campaign office for Senator Bernie Sanders a mile away "was humming with activity. Field organizers were busy calling supporters, and every so often the ding of a bell signaled that another volunteer was on board."