Obits will remind us that the longtime Illinois legislator, who died today, dropped out of college, borrowed some money and ran his own newspaper devoted to some notable muckraking. <p>His Senate campaign in 1984, when I got to meet him, was an exciting battle against a pompous, rich old lifer, and Simon knocked off three-termer Chuck Percy. <p>As the Democrats parade their predictable blue suits before voters a generation later, we're reminded of this quote from Simon, when he ran for president in 1988: "We can do better, my friends."
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