Word: charmers
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...testifying about his own $400,000 bribe to Edwards. He was a bad boy, but the voters never cared; Edwards liked to joke that he'd never have to leave office unless he was "caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." Edwards was a charmer, a scamp, a honey-tongued governor perfectly matched to his state who apparently had more bag men than press secretaries, and was loved for that, in the great and unique local tradition of Earl and Huey Long. Return me to office, he once implored voters, "or there won't be anything...
Privately, McCain insiders concede that Bush has already won strongly conservative communities such as Brea. They also admit that while McCain is a charmer in person, he's a bit of a stiff on television, and in an ad-campaign state like California, that's a problem...