JAMES BENNETT posts a review of Michael Barone’s new book. Excerpt: “In the two decades prior to 1688, virtually every phenomenon of modern electoral politics could be discerned, at least in embryo. Even modern bloggers were presaged by the network of pamphleteers on both sides, mostly vicious, libelous, and highly partisan rumor-mongers. Sound familiar? Even sock-puppetry was not unknown.”