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The candidate behaving badly was the incumbent President Ahmadinejad, the pile of papers were never turned around.
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But voters tend to reserve the word "character" to describe how a candidate behaves at moments of difficulty.
As long as the candidates behave.
The other candidates behaved exactly the way they always have.
People on both sides worked heroically, and, on Tuesday, their candidates behaved well.
But that depends on how the candidates behave, how the media behave and how voters perceive it.
Most dramatically the debate between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi turned into a gloves off slagging match in which one of the candidates behaved most unpresidentially by flinging insults at the other debater's wife and repeatedly referred to a pile of papers on his desk (evidence of corruption of his rival) and threatened to reveal them there and then on live TV.
Note this is in contrast to the results in the previous section, where the presence of an electorate with a like bias facilitated equilibria in which the two mainstream candidates behaved honestly.
How can it be that the number of equilibria in which the two mainstream candidates behave honestly is higher when the electorate is homogeneous than when voters have different points of view?
Instead of providing details about strategy, the candidates behaved like bullies on the attack.
All the help you can get: Will the candidates behave themselves tonight after Obama's alleged snub of Clinton at the State of the Union?
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