Memo to Mrs. Dole: Those dishonest negative campaign tactics fooled no one.
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Dr. Frank Luntz, the media manipulator behind both Newt Gingrich's Contract with America and Harold Ford Jr.'s stirring speech to the 2000 Democratic Convention, noted in Words the Work that Americans want their candidates to be "genuine" their message to be aspirational, one that has a broad narrative towards a better future.
If you look at Dole's performance, she was neither. If you look at Obama's, he was both.