[Dog Gone]

Unfortunately, every so often, they’ll linger by the TV a little too long, Senator Someone Else will start to talk, and his party will remember that he is, indeed, John Kerry, and it’s too late to get another Someone Else.

In every Presidential election held in my lifetime, the more charismatic or likeable candidate won the election. The only exceptions to that might be Johnson/Goldwater and Nixon/McGovern where neither of the candidates had much of an edge.

This year, it is again no contest in the likeability department. Senator Someone Else is a clear loser.

[7thson]

I was going on 15 at the time of Nixon/McGovern. I still remember the commercials citing that McGovern would cut the military by 1/3. Even with Viet Nam winding down, if I can still remember that, it is probably a safe bet to say that the majority of Americans thought that would not be a bright thing to do.