Analysts: Past debates didn’t have much effect
Posted: October 4, 2012 at 5:27 a.m.
“It’s such a charming story,” but Richard Nixon’s sweaty performance in his 1960 debate with John F. Kennedy probably wasn’t what cost him the election, a political science professor said.
Presidential debates have produced some of the most memorable moments of modern campaigns : a tanned and relaxed John F. Kennedy meeting a sweaty and pasty Richard Nixon in 1960. Gerald Ford denying Soviet domination of Eastern Europe in 1976. Al Gore sighing and rolling his eyes in 2000.
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