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Originally Posted by buggyone
But on a realistic view, American voters want someone they can recognize. Don Trump has name recoginition as an icon of money and as a TV personality. There are probably enough American voters who would vote for a movie star like Brad Pitt or Matt Damon for president to make a reasonable showing.
The whole process is now run with money, money, and money. The television ads are 30 second bites that tell nothing of the candidate. Basically, it is just looking for the best star power - as Richie pointed out earlier when he mentioned the Kennedy-Nixon Debate when Nixon had a stubbly 5 o'clock shadow and sweat on his upper lip. That lost to the well coifed hair and smiling teeth of JFK.
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It's true. It's a well known fact that most who listened to the Kennedy/Nixon debates on radio thought Nixon won the debate. Those who watched on TV had an opposite reaction.
But we also have a much more diverse media today and people are generally more savvy. The last election was an emotional affair and lots of people voted their dreams.
Well, the dream has turned into a nightmare and there's no way to clean that up. Obama is going to go totally negative in this campaign because it's the only option open to him. We'll see how that plays in Peoria.