Anybody remember James Stockdale? He was Perot's running mate. I remember a televised debate with him, Quayle, and Gore. Stockdale was a war hero, and for 7 years he was brutally tortured as a POW in Vietnam, but never cracked. At the debate, he was unprepared and forgot to turn his hearing aid on. Those two jerks ran rings around him and he became a laughing stock. Perot and Stockdale still got 19% of the vote in 1992.

Rule #1: Don't look bad on TV.

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𝐃𝐒𝐝 𝐍𝐒𝐱𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐲, 𝐬𝐑𝐒𝐟𝐭𝐲 ππžπ›πšπ­πž 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐒𝐦 𝐭𝐑𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐒𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲?

Fresh out of hospital and without the benefit of makeup, Richard Nixon ceded a major opportunity to challenge his upstart Democratic foe

independent.co.uk/news/world/a

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@tgraph52
I was just thinking about that too. Nixon lost by 112,000 votes. He got creamed in the electoral college though. And there were massive allegations of voter fraud. I swear we live in an ideological snow globe.

@tgraph52
Of course - I am aware that things are different now. America didn't know Nixon was a criminal until AFTER he got elected.

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