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...profound redefinitions of American life, as Franklin Roosevelt engineered. Of course, squeakers too can change American life, as Lincoln and Kennedy proved. What is critical in both landslides and squeakers is the ability of a President to read the tides, the yearnings that went into his victory, to distinguish between his own campaign rhetoric and the reality he must force his people to face...
...always difficult to distinguish between Jesse Jackson and what he stood for. The eloquent young man was a master politician-part preacher, part insurrectionary, part visionary, part hater. Tainted now, however, by racists whom he refused to repudiate, he ran not as a presidential candidate who happened to be black but as the black presidential candidate. And his cause was new-for however he styled it, his cause was that of black separatism within the American political system...
...People realize that Sen. Helms is different from President Reagan," Hunt told reporters recently. "People know the difference, and they're just not going to buy that business of him being so close to Reagan ... they're going to distinguish in this race...
Furthermore, she said the committee found it easy to distinguish especially innovative proposals from those "that one would like to see happen but which aren't breaking any new ground artistically...
Affirmative rebuttal: The alternative is a series of campaigns consisting of ever more tightly controlled photo opportunities and slickly packaged TV spots. Debates offer an imperfect but valuable chance for a mass audience to try to distinguish image from reality...