'The Body'

Food is a powerful thing. Even more powerful? Free food.

I was a student at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis when Jesse “The Body” Ventura was running for governor. Granted, I wore the blinders of a college freshman, but from my perspective, Ventura won based on a single clever move: Every week, his people arrived on campus with hundreds of boxes of free pizza, encouraging out-of-state college kids—who had no idea of local politics nor a lot of spending money--to go vote.