Word: dworak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professional politician, Donald Dworak is used to fielding hostile questions of the have-you-stopped-beat-ing-your-wife variety. But this is worse by far-unfair, underhanded, unAmerican...
Bathed in the bright glare of television lights, he squirms nervously, kneading his hands together tightly, his knuckles whitening. Dworak, a second-term state senator from Nebraska who is considering a run for Governor, manages credible and even convincing answers to probing questions on water policy, a prime concern to Nebraska farmers. But then comes a change-up from his questioner. "What's your favorite color?" Dworak starts to stammer a confused response and finally breaks up in laughter on-camera. "Remember," admonishes the unamused interviewer, "be ready for anything...
...take for granted a solid blue-collar base or mass backing from minorities. The voter has become increasingly independent of party labels, a finicky comparison shopper among parties, candidates and issues. There are new techniques for wooing this voter, methods so far used most effectively by the Republicans. Don Dworak realizes this all too well. He was a Republican before switching parties earlier this year. For Democrats, even newly minted ones like Don Dworak, this is the first day of school...