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Thursday, 14--Norman Ornstein Professor of Political Punditry Marvin Kalb announces his candidacy for President of the United States. "During my 'Candidates '88' conversations I have convinced myself that I am smarter, better informed and better looking than the current crop of candidates," Kalb told himself in an interview broadcast this morning...
Amid persistent charges that the Democraticcontenders lack clear messages and identities inthis campaign, Kalb's assessment is that theDemocrats have generally done as well as theRepublicans in the use of paid media. He does, ofcourse, single out certain candidates from bothparties whom he says have done better thanaverage...
...candidate who seems to have gone thefarthest through the use of money and media--theRev. Pat Robertson--receives little praise fromKalb. "Since New Hampshire, Robertson hasconducted one of the most painful and patheticpolitical campaigns that I've seen in a longtime," says Kalb, citing Robertson's accusationsagainst the Bush campaign among other issues."This man has demonstrated a capacity forpolitical suicide that surprises me because [he]was one of the most effective performers [on`Candidates...
Having established "Candidates '88" as aninfluential program, Kalb muses about the futureof his TV brainchild. "I would love to be able in'92 to do a series called "Candidates '92," hesays. "And on the basis of the reaction of the PBSnetwork, and the reaction of most of the peoplewho have written about the series, I think that itwill be realistic and that it will happen...
...meantime, Kalb says he "wouldn't besurprised" if, after this summer's conventions,PBS were to run a four-week series of interviewswith each of the presidential andvice-presidential nominees. Whether or not Americaviews this media expert as a bona fide pundit,that may be enough to catapult him back into theranks of Who's Who. And as any amateurpolitician can tell you, a public televisionaudience isn't NBC, but it's certainly better thana half-filled lecture hall