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electorate. “A good professional poll will cost five or six thousand dollars,” he said. “We have to balance at this point the value of what we would learn against spending the money on getting out our message.”
Voter dismay over the budget deadlock cou)d mean the difference with the undecided voters, Mr. Woodward believes. “I think this is the wave on which challengers like Smith are going to ride into Washington. We always knew here that we needed something to overcome the registration numbers. The whole specter of a Congress unable to find its tail may be what we needed. ”
Mr. Smith is is 34-year-old Methodist minister and solar energy entrepreneur who has never run for public office before. He is challenging a man who has never lost a race — and Congressman Slaughter’s first campaign took place when Smith was a toddler.
But he has the backing of his father: State Del. Alson Smith, Jr., one of the most powerful of the Vir
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