I remember Jon Lovitz on SNL playing Dukakis, and saying during the debate “How am I losing to this guy?”
Lovitz’s “Dukakis After Dark” sketch is one of the show’s best ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6za7fdFRpo
When I did the NBC tour a while back, I noticed that a still photo from that sketch is one of several dozen that graces the hallway outside the SNL studio at Rockefeller Center.
Like “Why am I not 50 points ahead?”