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Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:40 AM

Crooks and Liars: Tim Russert: Can you imagine an election based on actual issues?!

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Back in 1963, Barry Goldwater and John F. Kennedy were seriously mulling the idea of chartering a campaign plane and traveling around the country together, debating actual issues and letting the electorate decide who would be the better candidate based on actual policy differences. Tonight on MSNBC, in light of the news that McCain and Obama would perhaps be open to holding moderator-free town-hall debates , Tim Russert wonders whether an election based not on petty, manufactured character gaps, but on actual substantive differences is possible. Can you even begin to imagine that level of civility in today's political culture? Download Play Download Play The tone of the campaign is going to be very interesting to me. Both...
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