Abraham Lincoln's close friend and law partner William H. Herndon, July 19, 1887
“Lincoln’s voice was, when he first began speaking, shrill, squeaking, piping, unpleasant; his general look, his form, his pose, the color of his flesh, wrinkled and dry, his sensitiveness, and his momentary diffidence, everything seemed to be against him, but he soon recovered.”
When Lincoln ran, there was no TV and no internet.
Today, unfortunately, a lot of superficial things matter, as much as content, like it or not. Not to mention whose side the MSM is on.
Hilarious VR.
We live in a 24 hour news cycle with microphones stuck in people’s faces all the time. Likely a pretty small percentage of Americans have NOT heard Palin’s voice.
The percentage of Americans who heard Lincoln’s voice? Miniscule.
No comparison.