so gerry studds with a colleague who wrote a good book about this, if you are going to look that up, persuaded mccarthy that he actually could do quite well, studds, i found in the gerry studds papers, had written down in longhand, long before computers, every town, how it voted and noted the state was becoming increasingly liberal as mostly catholic working-class people from massachusetts were migrating into new hampshire so mccarthy decided he would run in the elections, as a result of this gained political confidence in himself, not everybody in mccarthy's campaign who convinced mccarthy -- so what happened next, bizarre turf. told him they pay for a year of further study of harvard. not really knowing where his life was going he had two jobs -- while he is -- back at cambridge he gets the idea he can run for congress. his friend did that also, began to convince themselves they could do the same thing. is that quixotic? quixotic campaigns in the history of american politics none is more destined to fail than this one. thirtysomething with his parents, you got to remind yourselves h