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...talk of “vetting” reflects an interest in returning to values Americans want in their leaders. This is what vetting is all about: fitting candidates into their proper political boxes and figuring out which constituencies they woo best, be it the soccer moms or the NASCAR dads. Clearly vetting is not a very nuanced process—for media characterizations it’s the sound bytes that sell...
...NASCAR DAD? As he ended his bid for the Democratic nomination, John Edwards got some speechwriting help from his daughter Emma Claire, 5. He wrote the concession speech at his Raleigh, N.C., home--the last lap for a candidate whose Secret Service code name was "Speedway...
...turn out if they are contacted personally. Bush officials found, for instance, that this kind of effort is the most effective with Latinos who have never had such attention from the G.O.P. If you are a swing-state Republican, lean that way or happen to share an interest like NASCAR or the N.R.A., someone is probably going to knock on your door between now and Election Day. You may already know G.O.P. officials from the church potluck or Little League, but if you don't, they hope to lavish attention...
...more so at Harvard Law School. At a school dominated by a tiny intellectual elite, Davey represents the rest of America, that portion of America that few people at Harvard—not liberals and not even moderate conservatives—represent. He’s not exactly a NASCAR dad, but he’s close. He’s the kind of guy Pat Robertson would like, and he himself likes Pat Robertson. In many ways, he just doesn?...
Bill Shack of Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition last year called NASCAR “the last bastion of white supremacy,” but the reverend distanced himself from those comments yesterday...