http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/elaine-dimasi-learns-hard-lessons-about-money-and-leadership-politics

Elaine DiMasi (left) talks with a luncheon crowd in the Long Island, New York, district she hoped to represent. 

Physicist Elaine DiMasi doesn’t actually believe she was lying to her campaign volunteers. But letting them think that she expected to win the Democratic nomination for a seat in Congress—“We’re going to win, I have the right message,”—despite clear evidence she was falling far short of her targets for fundraising and identifying likely supporters never felt right, either.