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A 5 page film review of this fascinating documentary that chronicles the 1994 Senate race between incumbent Senator Charles S. Robb and Oliver L. North. The writer argues that mud slinging campaign epitomizes what was wrong then and continues to be wrong with American electoral politics. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. A Perfect Candidate Research Compiled for The
Paper Store, Enterprises Inc. By - November, 2010 properly! The Perfect Candidate (1996, directed by
David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles S. Robb and Oliver L. North. As Janet Maslin of The
New York Times comments in her review, "it would be hard to find a more chilling view of the American electoral process" than the one presented in this film (Maslin,
1996). This is a campaign in which both campaigns of both candidates focus primarily at slinging mud at their opponent, as positions are mentioned only in passing, if at
all. The campaigns present the election as a contest of personalities, with each side arguing that the other candidate is too despicable to be elected. Norths claim to fame,
which was well remembered in the late 1990s, was his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. The Robb campaign capitalized on the fact that North committed perjury when he lied to
Congress concerning the part he played when the federal government financed right-wing South American rebels by selling arms illegally in the Middle East. Norths defense, at the time, was
that he believed that what he was doing was right for the country. Not surprisingly, therefore, his campaign presented him as a patriot, with family values mentioned frequently in Norths
ads, which also stressed that he was a Christian and a stalwart upholder of conservative values and social beliefs. Norths supporters were virtually all white. Robbs campaign argued that
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