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Despite election bitterness in the past, the republic survives.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Michael D. Schaffer
PHILADELPHIA _ American presidential campaigns are often trimmed in mud and studded with accusations as sharp as nails.
This candidate was a grafter, that one was lecherous. This one was a closet monarchist, that one was godless. This one was barely literate, that one arranged a tryst for a foreign ruler. This one lied about his war record, that one about his National Guard service.
So much bitterness, yet the republic survives.
"If you take the long view, it seems to me that what we're going through is not extreme," Richard Norton Smith, executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., said of the Bush-Kerry campaign.
Here are a few of the more colorful episodes from what Smith calls our ...
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