The twinkling CNN pollster weasel whose name escapes me just now the first I've heard to make what will now be the inescapable Dean/Muskie triangulation: expressions of emotion as "unpresidential". Muskie's snowy breakdown (famously ascribed by Hunter Thompson to ibogaine abuse) I remember, that election the first I followed in any detail, even then it seemed weirdly set up, cinematic in a cheap way.
Fletcher Knebel, thou shouldst be living at this hour!