The first presidential election I remember at all well is the 2000 Bush-Gore campaign. The first I could vote in was the 2008 Obama-McCain race. Given that, I can't honestly say there has ever been an election in my lifetime I remember as being something less than an angry, hateful spectacle—though, of course, one can well make the case that "angry, hateful spectacle" is actually quite a normal description for American presidential campaigns:
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