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...good stand-in needs to know a lot more than what words an opponent is likely to use. Another Republican stand-in playing Gore in 2000, former Ohio Rep. Rob Portman, noticed that in a previous debate Gore had left his stool and approached Bill Bradley during an answer - "seeming to try a little physical intimidation to rattle him," Portman says...
Another role for the stand-in, experts say, is to make candidates comfortable going up against rivals - and not just rhetorically. "For Dan Quayle I put on a golf sweater, put a golf tee behind my ear and twirled a putter," says former Ohio Rep. Dennis Eckart, who worked with Democratic Vice Presidential candidates Lloyd Bentsen in 1988 and Gore in 1992. "It broke the tension...
...hundreds of thousands of people who live in and around the many small towns throughout northern Ohio might be shocked to learn that "suburbanites and city dwellers do the fighting and hourly-wage work now." Klein insults our intelligence, our work ethic and our values when he suggests that we live in a place where "myths are more potent than the hope of getting past the dour realities." Oh, I forgot--like our brethren in Pennsylvania, we embrace guns and religion to escape the harsh realties of our existence. Steve Mohr, BUCYRUS, OHIO...
...this election. If ignoring people who suffer at the hands of injustice is part of the American Dream the Republicans want to bring back, then they need to wake up, because America is about freedom. It's not about everybody's being just like you. Lisa Toms, CINCINNATI, OHIO...
...wore a Buchanan button when he visited Alaska but says she never backed him.) All the money and outside effort has a single goal: reaching voters where the candidates have not. "This election is going to be decided by the grass roots," explains Phil Burress, a social conservative from Ohio who is helping to organize pastors and distribute church voter guides. "It's not going to be decided by the most media buys...