General Discussion

probably too decent to be able to win a presidential campaign
against all the shameless GQP smears which were launched against him---

Probably his greatest fault as a presidential candidate,
was that he believed that the voters would see through these smears,
and thought them so ridiculous that there was no need
for him to respond to them in a more timely manner---

(Also he flunked the rule that 'presidential candidates do not wear funny hats'
when he put on the tank driver's helmet...)

However, his 'closing argument' that "I'm on your side" was his strongest,
and was moving the numbers. Unfortunately it came too late...

I still believe he might have won that election, if he'd had another two weeks....
The "I'm on your side" message should have been used by him
through the entire general election campaign, rather than just in the last few weeks of it




(and last but NOT least--- he SHOULD have taken Rev. Jesse Jackson as his running mate!---
but of course that would have been a huge violation of the 'conventional wisdom' of the time,
and his campaign probably had no clue about how much that might have increased AA voter turnout!)