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Harvard study: Policy issues nearly absent in presidential campaign coverage

  • Written by Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard University

Years ago, when I first started teaching and was at Syracuse University, one of my students ran for student body president on the tongue-in-cheek platform “Issues are Tissues, without a T.”

He was dismissing out of hand anything that he, or his opponents, might propose to do in office, noting that student body presidents have so little...

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