The dogs that didn’t bark in 2016

Published June 1, 2016 9:24pm ET



Let’s look back on the primary campaign — completed for Republicans, still ongoing for Democrats — and see if we can identify what Sherlock Holmes called the dogs that didn’t bark.

For what’s unusual about this campaign is not only that unexpected things happened — improbable candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders getting more than 40 percent of their parties’ popular votes — but that things everyone has come to expect did not.

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