Pundits and political observers of all stripes have been asking themselves whether businessman Donald Trump can actually win the GOP nomination and then the presidency. The Washington Post has an interesting look at another outsider celebrity candidate who managed to get elected, suggesting there may be lessons for Trump in that experience:

Is Jesse Ventura’s unlikely Minnesota win a road map for Donald Trump?

Hopeless campaigns against impossible odds are pet projects for the devoted, the eccentric, the weird, the tinfoil-hat wearers …