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.