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The New York Times , for example, queried voters about the one issue that "mattered most" in deciding which House candidate to vote for.
Because of nuclear weapons, the United States and the Soviet Union could not afford to do what great rival empires would previously have done: go to war over the places that really mattered to them, in this case Europe and China-Taiwan-Japan.
These proxy fights mattered because real fights were too dangerous.
Hart's problem was actually that, as a symbol of American-ness, his "character" mattered more then than Clinton's does now.
But in Dell's case, it's clearly the ownership, not the accompanying financial reward, that has really mattered.