The Make or Break Moments in Presidential Campaign History

What will be remembered as this year's "Checker's Speech" or "Dean scream?" CQ Politics examines some of the memorable moments from 2008, as well as the make-or-break moments of past elections.

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News & Politics

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• hillary
• clinton
• barack
• obama
• howard
• dean
• john
• mccain
• election08
• election2008
• richard
• nixon
• muskie
• george
• bush

[largesatsuma]

The narrator has a really annoying voice. Time to go back to film class.

[wonkacorp]

ha ha: obama won. You sucked at that.

[KorinFaux]

and obama won xD

[GokuDoBushido]

What is the song at the end of the presentation?

[lcd2201]

watch?v=v-_l_UB-FJg

[malbanese11]

i call bullshit on you. maybe if you read into a bit, you'd realize that this video is more of a rip on the media and how these incidents get blown way out of proportion and take the focus away from the campaigns themselves. all of your opinions are wrong, are you sure you're american?

[Bonecrkr]

Yeah, I call bullshit on that. The media would like you to believe that they have such control over our lives. But the truth is they don't and what little influence they have is on th decline due to abuse of their privilege. Dean did not lose because of his shrill yeaaaah faux pas. He lost because he's a radical leftist in a nation of moderates (Obama will lose for the same reason). Reagan did not win because of favorable sound bites. He won because conservativeness always wins.

[syrupcore]

that was fun. thanks for sharing.