It was not the dead that beat Coke Stevenson, but old fashioned and rather crude ballot stuffing, in Duval County. By today's standards, LBJ would have been convicted of so many felonies, he would have been jailed for life. His smoothest game was collecting bribes through telling the bribers to buy advertising on his "wife's" radio station which he stole, by pulling the regulatory strings via his pal FDR and the Speaker of the House - Rayburn. Positively brilliant all the way around.
Let me modify: Once you've been beaten once by the dead you never forget.