Originally Posted by kane

That is true. With the right strategy you can make any candidate, bad or good, look amazing. I always tell people to look at the 2000 election. While Bush was governor of Texas that state ranked last in environmental quality and bottom 5 in strength of economy and quality of education. Al Gore was handed the presidency on a silver platter. Things were relatively peaceful, the economy was chugging along and things were pretty good. All he had to do was point out that Bush was a failure as a governor and that if elected president he would bring those problems to the entire nation. Gore refused to attack him and he refused to pull out Bill Clinton, who , despite his problems, was a pretty popular president when he left office. Bush's people polished him up and he ran a brilliant campaign. Kick in a little help from his peeps in Florida and include the old people in Florida being confused by the ballot and he won when he probably should have lost in a landslide.

With enough money and the right plan any candidate can be sold the public.