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Stephen Breyer's Ice Cream's avatar

The minute the presidential debates started being televised (1960, Kennedy v. Nixon), presidential campaigns became vibes-based. We've had 60 years of vibes-based campaigns by this point. It shouldn't be news anymore.

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Dave Zimny's avatar

Good point! I'm so old that I can remember listening to the Kennedy v. Nixon debate on the radio. As a very young foreign policy wonk, I came away thinking that Nixon had definitely won the day. I was the only student in my Catholic grammar school to vote for Nixon in our classmate straw poll. But never fear: I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now...

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