1934 California Race

Think This Year's Campaign Is Dirty? Check Out 1934 -- and the Birth of Modern Politics

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.31.2009 | Media


Greg Mitchell

Like Obama, Upton Sinclair led a "change" campaign with masses of new or re-energized voters, he was pictured as mysterious interloper, and he was labeled a "Socialist." Though that was mostly true in his case.