Washington finds a parallel in the Texas of 1948

Are you watching Washington's efforts to decide whether its next governor will be Christine Gregoire or Dino Rossi, and the parties' sparring over whether 500+ King County ballots that were mistakenly rejected should be inspected and counted?  If so, then take an hour to read (or re-read) the chapter from Robert Caro's book Means of Ascent (volume two of his LBJ biography) in which he describes the ballot shenanigans and post-election struggle in Texas's Democratic senatorial primary of 1948, in which Lyndon Johnson was held to have defeated Coke Stevenson by 87 votes.  (If you don't have the book, try Googling "johnson stevenson 'ballot box 13'".)  The Johnson-Stevenson story adds some historical perspective to the problems faced by our neighbor to the north.