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Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.
Bob Newhart
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Bob Newhart
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 5
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