not familiar with the term.
What I don’t get is, if she couldn’t beat a novice communist Kenyan senator, why did they think she could win now?
He was a character played by Andy Griffith in ‘A Face in the Crowd’ from 1957. In a nutshell, he’s a slick talking Arkansas drifter who rises to national fame and power, only to lose it all when the mask slips off.