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WITH your permission, let me take a stroll down memory lane. It was 1980 and I was enrolled in the prestigious Columbia University's School of Journalism in New York City, and together with my classmates I was taking part in my first Big Time political journalism undertaking: Covering the Republican presidential primary race in New Hampshire.
Two leading candidates were dominating the then GOP presidential fight. First, there was George HW Bush, the former congressman, CIA director and US ambassador to China, who was the favourite of the Republican establishment and who - according to the major media outlets - was going to win his party's nomination. He had the Big Mo(mentum), they argued.
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