Maybe I'm just cynical, but I think that 1) media is going to report preferentially on candidates attacking eachother because it's more exciting than policy, and 2) candidates attack eachother on an awful lot of things that aren't policy, like experience and whether one teared up along the campaign trail once upon a time, and 3) people are going to remember those random juicy sorts of things, and the fact that there was acrimony, better than they'll remember abstract policy.
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