Tonight’s debate could be more significant than vice-presidential duels of the past
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Or it may prove more useful as supplying more fodder for campaign advertising than anything else Vice-presidential debates rarely matter in politics except as fodder for jokes and, for today’s lazier commentariat, memes of the lesser variety. The greatest moment in modern vice-presidential debate history is Lloyd Bentsen’s “you’re no Jack Kennedy” zinger of Dan Quayle, a debate win so effective that Bentsen and Michael Dukakis lost forty states. Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman’s debate played out
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