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  Who would have won a Roosevelt-Willkie debate? (search mode)
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Antonio the Sixth
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« on: August 22, 2016, 04:00:03 AM »
Quote from: L.D. Smith on August 22, 2016, 12:39:40 AM
FDR easily.

No one running for that office has ever quite matched him rhetorically, hard as JFK and Obama try.

Yeah, FDR invented modern Presidential communication (although obviously he did so with the means of the time, and TV changed things quite a bit... but still).
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2016, 09:55:32 AM »
Quote from: Committeeman Kingpoleon on August 22, 2016, 07:52:54 AM
The one who was willing to debate and not in a wheelchair.

Being in a wheelchair wouldn't have been a problem since TV didn't exist (which kind of makes you regret these days, tbh).
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2016, 11:37:10 AM »
Quote from: Chief Justice windjammer on August 22, 2016, 11:35:10 AM
Roosevelt is a great orator, I don't know who Wilkie is.

You've been a poster here for almost 4 years and still don't know the names of all major party candidates? That's inexcusable.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2016, 02:54:35 AM »
Quote from: Committeeman Kingpoleon on August 22, 2016, 03:25:03 PM
Quote from: I did not see L.A. on August 22, 2016, 09:55:32 AM
Quote from: Committeeman Kingpoleon on August 22, 2016, 07:52:54 AM
The one who was willing to debate and not in a wheelchair.

Being in a wheelchair wouldn't have been a problem since TV didn't exist (which kind of makes you regret these days, tbh).
TV existed... It was becoming pretty widespread by the late 1930s.

I'm not sure what you mean by "pretty widespread", but didn't it reach a majority of households only in the 1960s?
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