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To: DMaA who wrote (4966)	8/13/2003 11:17:40 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 793672

The candidate should be as affable as can be, but the volunteers need to be dedicated. And they should be willing to do whatever it takes to win. I recently spent time in the representative heartland town of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. By Oklahoma standards it's a small city, population 35,000 with 80 churches. I was friends with the woman who is chair of the local Republican Party there. We talked a lot in the last election cycle and I was astounded at the lack of basics. For example, she thought it would be rude to call the elderly to see if they needed a ride to the polls. I didn't sense much fervency in the campaign workers. I had call to stop by Democratic Headquarters a few times during that period and those people were pumped, they were excited about what they were doing. This was the election that Steve Largent was running for Governor in. Largent played football for Tulsa U, had a brilliant NFL career (huge factor in OK) and had just finished a successful run at being a Congressman, the guy was extremely popular. But he lost. There is no way on God's green earth that should have happened. He ran not to lose, a very milquetoast campaign. But the energy has to be in the various campaign rooms too, and it simply wasn't there. There was also the factor of a 3rd party candidate, a former Republican State's Attorney who funded his own campaign, and he had deep pockets. Largent chose to ignore him rather than go after him - the guy wound up getting 14% of the vote. Huge mistake.