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Although Elizabeth Dole is intensely private, she doesn't always wear her piety lightly. Last January, in the middle of a long day on the road, she turned to a reporter riding with her. "May I ask you a personal question?" Sure. "Is God important in your life?" It was the only question she asked...
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...someone who professes not to be a politician, Dole is a helluva campaigner. At her speaking engagements, she leaps out from behind the lectern and wades into the audience, Oprah-style. But the spontaneity is well rehearsed. Her campaign manner is Southern-fried Kabuki: every line, every smile, every knowing aside, every haa-haa-haa has been tested and practiced until the timing is just...
...campaigning is the poetry of politics and governing the prose, Dole prefers the prose. She'd rather be poring over briefing books than pressing the flesh. "She's not a political person," says Mari Will. "He loves to talk about politics. She doesn't. She is very much a public servant...
...Elizabeth Dole, one of the occupational hazards of campaigning is the media. She doesn't seem to understand why journalists are not just stenographers. While on vacation in Florida, the Senator would take a moment to jaw with a group of reporters, while she would ostentatiously get inside the car and wait impatiently...