When Saturday Night Live nails an impression of a politician, it manages a unique alchemy - elevating the thing about that person that is so funny it can pretty much define them in the public's mind.
When John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, Tina Fey produced a devastating take on the vice-presidential candidate as a superficial dimwit given to folksy-sounding word salads in speeches and interviews.
Think Gerald Ford was a clumsy dolt? That might be because that's how Chevy Chase in the show's first season, even though Ford was a former champion athlete.
Darrell Hammond's take on Al Gore during a debate sketch in 2000, playing Gore as an oblivious technocrat obsessed with the word 'lockbox' to a crushing effect.
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