#113 - Fear and Loathing on the Sham-paign Trail

The rubes and the hicks think that the politicians are squeaky-clean. But insiders like you and me? We understand that politics is a game... and the winner is whoever plays it best. That's the thesis of RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE (2016), a CNN docutainment series about the wheeling-and-dealings of presidential campaigns. We recall such titanic bouts as Kennedy v. Nixon, Bush v. Dukakis, and Clinton v. Bush, and ask, as we so often do: "Okay, but what were these campaigns ABOUT?" PLUS: the Democratic Party debates, the summer movies, and Luke's online brush with the First Family. "Joe Biden Was a Trainwreck in Last Night's Debate" by Luke Savage - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/joe-biden-democratic-debate "The Human Factor" by Will Sloan - https://willsloanesq.wordpress.com/2019/07/27/the-human-factor/