Out of sight, out of hand? The FBI flunks the character issue.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | v28 |
| Issue | n8 |
| Published | 1997-01-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Nick Gillespie |
By most accounts, the "character issue" - whether a candidate is honest, trustworthy, and morally principled - failed to engage voters during Campaign '96. As Time's Margaret Carlson half-jokingly put it, "Character has lost its attraction as an issue now that it no longer means sex. Once the press and the candidates realized that harping on sexual indiscretions ran the risk of Mutual Assured Destruction, the character issue was reduced to the impossible - and tedious - task of weighing one man's soul against another's."
But during the waning days of a rather torpid election...
[This journal article is 960 words long]
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