Now voters in both countries are learning the other side of the story.
If the voters cannot learn to love their President, in other words, they must be taught to fear his opponent.
So voters learn who their candidates are through issues.
"In the end the voters never learned about the good things we were still doing, because all the media tuned into was the fight."
No sooner had the voters learned to relive the assassination than they were asked to go through the 1960 campaign.
He said the primary season has been so volatile that voters should have learned not to be too pragmatic.
The voters learned of the inquiry only this week.
More important, their attacks have been about substance that voters can learn from, like national security and taxes.
Along the way, the voters clearly learned something about the costs and the difficulties of change.
Many voters learned that universal health insurance would cost more in upset, regulations and risk than they were willing to pay.