After working in four presidential campaigns and after covering the last seven with a press pass, I have concluded the following: Every presidential campaign is ultimately, and inevitably, a mirror of the presidential candidate in whose name it is run.

The criminality and paranoia of Richard Nixon's campaign began with the candidate himself. The energetic optimism as well as the chronic dissembling of Bill Clinton's campaign came directly from the man himself. I have never known any ca ...

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