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That meant focusing attention on the personality of his eggheadish foe, while putting just a little distance between himself and Reagan. Like his famous father before him, the Illinois Democrat lacks a personal touch. He has compiled his economic program for Illinois in a 300-page redevelopment pamphlet, yet on the stump he has come across as brainy and out of touch. His defensive response to a flurry of wimp jokes--he launched an ad campaign stressing that he had volunteered for the Marines during the Korean War--only accelerated his electoral decline. So did his outlandish last-ditch salvos...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Of Wimps and Toughs | 11/2/1982 | See Source »

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