A presidential campaign comes to the people in color on television and in magazines, which makes it all the more odd how colorless campaigns can seem. There is something numbing and emotionally draining about the proliferation of reds, whites, and blues--more so, perhaps, because these are the colors of American patriotism. When they are blared day in and day out, not only do people lose their enthusiasm for a campaign, but they feel a kind of embittered weariness, as if the colors, always on the edge of becoming cliches in themselves, helped to make a cliche
