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Clark has a similar pitch. In his stump speech, quartered into Southern-friendly themes--patriotism, faith, family, leadership--he mentions Arkansas as many as a dozen times. He does not say that after he graduated from Little Rock's Hall High School, he moved away--for 34 years...
...claim to know what it's like to live in the latter nation. And he can. His father Wallace, who couldn't afford college, worked in a string of mills across the South. (He eventually became a manager, something his son doesn't mention in his stump speech...
...dogged and earnest as she is when she is campaigning for Kerry on her own, Teresa (pronounced Tuh-ray-za), 65, does not function nearly so well as a prop. Onstage beside her husband during yet another recitation of his stump speech, she stands with her wavy hair falling over her eyes, looking preoccupied or, worse, bored. Only recently did she begin using Kerry's last name, switch her party registration from Republican and quit referring to the late Senator Heinz in the present tense as "my husband." She still has a tendency to volunteer what another political spouse might...
...with Republican toughness and Democratic wimpitude. The best reason to believe in Bush's inevitability is his incumbency. It requires a terrific candidate and a perfect campaign--Bill Clinton in 1992--or disastrous times to dislodge a sitting President. This President can be charming and eloquent on the stump. He is surrounded by a first-rate political team. The economy will probably improve. Osama bin Laden could be captured. A President can usually set the tone and the agenda to his liking...
...crowd. "People have told me all my life that I couldn't do this or that--couldn't go to college, couldn't go to law school," Edwards often tells a crowd. "You've probably been told that too." The difference between John Kerry and John Edwards on the stump is simple: Edwards, the trial lawyer, is trying to convince a jury, and Kerry seems to be trying to convince history...