Wellstone

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed May 27 14:59:38 PDT 1998


Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote:


>I'm not sure that one can be
>too dorky to get the chance at a serious run. Gerald Ford. Richard Nixon,
>Michael Dukakis. World class dorks, all.

Nixon was almost ruined by the televised 1960 debate - a Nixon today couldn't make it on TV. Ford lost (even though the official LBO election model, right 11 of the last 13 times, forecast that he should have won). Dukakis lost, a laughinstock. Gore is a dork, but he's got money & incumbency. The odds are stacked strongly against dorks.

Doug



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