Media Clippings

It never fails. The man who survives the nutty primary system and wins the Democratic nomination is hailed for a while as a media genius—and his staff is full of geniuses, too. It happened to McGovern, Carter, and Mondale—and now it’s happening to Michael Dukakis.

The worst result is that the candidate’s staff believes this stuff, and goes through the campaign giving Pat Caddell-like interviews about polls and strategy. Reporters love these stories because they seem lik...