Word: considerations
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Reese, who was a top adviser to John F. Kennedy '40--the candidate many consider to have been the first TV president--says the importance of television has not increased since the 1960s but that campaigns have become increasingly skillful in manipulating the medium.
According to political observers it's almost impossible to defeat a Kennedy in an election. But Joseph Malone '78 and Glenn Fiscus are shunning conventional wisdom in their attempts to do what many consider impossible--unseat an incumbent Kennedy in Massachusetts.
Although the Bush campaign does not consider the Pledge of Allegiance and Massachusetts furlough program to be non-issues, Sandor blames the press for their dominance. "We talked about other issues maybe 10 times more," he stresses.
Kennedy School Lecturer Martin Linsky, whose research has focused on campaigns and the media, similarly criticizes Dukakis for being "slow to react to data that he doesn't consider serious, or credible. [This] creates a problem."
The incident also promoted the Columbia Student Senate to consider an anti-homophicia measure that would define procedures in harassment cases.