Check out this campaign pamphlet from when Sen. Daniel Inouye — then a 34-year-old member of the Hawaii Territorial Senate — ran for U.S. House in 1959. He won, and has been winning elections ever since. 

DC808 found the pamphlet in one of the hundreds of containers of documents, photos and other artifacts in the Patsy Mink collection at the Library of Congress.

Mink, a former congresswoman who died in 2002, ran against Inouye in the 1959 Democratic primary. She later referred to her significant loss to Inouye as “gory” and a “terrible trouncing.”