Hadn't known that, and it's useful to know it. Honestly, though, it makes it worse: in 1996, my image of Bob Dole was not "warm, funny, sensible person," nor was it "guy who will kick ass and take names, who can lead this country." It was "really old and decrepit guy who's getting his shot because he's got seniority but who might not live out his first term." Assuming that this isn't some weird localized failure of perception on my part, that says to me that that campaign failed monumentally at getting its preferred image of Bob Dole out in front of people.

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