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Synopsis
A thorough examination of the 1996 presidential campaign as a communication event.
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Eleven articles examine such aspects of the 1996 campaign as the low public interest level, the conventions, the debates, the advertising, cartoons, digital democracy, parallels in the rhetorical constraints of First Ladies and Vice Presidents, political coalitions, and the electoral college and popular vote. They focus on politics as an aspect of communication and on the presidential election as a type of national conversation, thus interpreting the low public involvement as a failure to communicate. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.