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Five memorable moments from US Presidential debates

1960: The 'TV look' of JFK saw frontrunner Robert Nixon lose his advantage.

1984: Reagan promises NOT To exploit his young opponent's "youth and inexperience".

1988: Dan Quayle is the victim of a great putdown from Dukakis' running mate, Lloyd Bentsen of Texas.

2000: When Al Gore moved into George W Bush's zone in 2000 the latter simply nodded in his direction. It was the most-remembered moment of the debate!

2004: Bush, debating with John Kerry, insists that he did not act alone in the Iraq war.

I Won Three Purple Hearts

The best-known political music video of all time? JibJab's version of This Land Is Our Land heaped ridicule on Bush and Kerry.  Tens of millions loved it!

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John Kerry gets 'SwiftBoated'

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth produced some of the most controversial political ads in American political history.  John Kerry was running for President and was using his military experience as part of his pitch to voters.  Then the Swift Boat ads were unleashed and the momentum Senator Kerry had hoped to build on the back of his party's Convention was all lost.  The series of ads introduced the whole idea of being 'SwiftBoated' into the polictical lexicon.  The ads also showed that the monopoly of political communication, once the preserve of establishment parties, was well and truly over.