• James Carville is an intelligent guy. After all, he led the campaign that put a little-known governor from Arkansas in the White House.
• Bush made a campaign stop in February 1992 at the National Grocers Association Convention in Florida and hit an exhibit that featured a new type of checkout scanner.
• The message was clear: Bush had no idea how a grocery store worked and no idea what life was like for average Americans. The story never went away: Even his obituary in the Times said, “His critics saw him as out of touch with ordinary Americans, pointing to what they portrayed as his amazed reaction during a demonstration of a supermarket scanner.”

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