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...more or less willingly, for no pay. She spent six years raising their four kids pretty much alone while he was in Washington. At nine-plus months pregnant, she hosted a luncheon for John McCain and a bunch of Republican bigwigs. Somewhere along the way, she believes, Governor Sanford lost the plot. (See how Jenny Sanford is the savviest spurned woman in politics...
...financial crisis was caused by the juxtaposition of regulators who really didn't believe in regulation, and excess leverage," says Jon Corzine, the former governor of New Jersey and a former chief executive of Goldman Sachs. "We need stricter, higher capital rules for the banks. That's a much better solution than trying to limit a type of business that is hard to define...
...Davis, a rare blow-dried Republican in liberal Los Angeles, has played this card before. He first made his mark on the national scene by producing a 10-minute movie for 2002 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Sonny Purdue that depicted the sitting governor, Roy Barnes, as "King Roy," a giant rat with a gold crown, stomping like Godzilla through Atlanta. That was before the advent of YouTube and viral videos, so he screened the film for journalists at a movie theater; the next day, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran an image from the spot on its front page. Purdue went...
...Illinois last year, Davis produced a six-minute video for Republican Senate candidate Andy McKenna that put Governor Rod Blagojevich's hair on the state capital and most of its inhabitants, making it a symbol of corruption in the state. The ad was called "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow," and though it generated significant media coverage, the McKenna campaign eventually pulled it from circulation. "While the ad was running, we gained countless points in the poll," he said. "But they got cold feet on the hair...
...Davis' clients - a roster that includes Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and Tim James, who is running for Governor in Alabama - request the viral boost he offers. But Davis says Fiorina's corporate-world background in marketing predisposed her to this kind of risk taking. "She loved it," he says of Fiorina's reaction when he screened the demon-sheep spot. "Do you go into it knowing it is going to get negative blowback? Absolutely you do. But at the end of the day, my only goal, and the campaign's only goal, is to get people to wake...