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 Once the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary are out-of-the way,
candidates still standing may well be determined by Super Tuesday
on
February 5th when more than 20 states (including California and New
York)
make their choices.
Even so, it’s likely we could face a new wave of voter fatigue and
negative advertising in what already is a full throttle campaign, or
as politicians
call it: “demolition derby.” Can state-of-the-art technology shelter
us from
verbal deluge?
I like to think that somewhere computer whizzes are working on,
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When it comes to accentuating the negative advertising, there are
no rewards for second place in politics. It’s been the expected norm
since the ’88 Michael Dukakis campaign with Willie Horton, and four
years ago, the Navy Swift Boat veterans attack on John Kerry.
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In my view, you can’t get anywhere downing others, except if you’re
a politician.
Hark, hark, little smear,
Don’t you cry,
You’re sure to be in politics,
By and by.
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Gene Farinet, an award winning veteran newsman, spent much of his long
career at NBC News as a writer and producer working with Frank McGee,
Ed Newman, John Chancellor and Tom Brokaw, covering space, politics
and special projects everywhere in the world.
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