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The masses crammed into Churchill Downs on Saturday will be fixated on 3-year-old thoroughbreds running in the Kentucky Derby. But in some sections of the famed track, another type of horse race will have politicians vying for attention mdash; and perhaps cash to support their campaigns.Springtime in Kentucky means trees blooming, horses racing and, in most years, politicians jockeying for position ahead of the late May primary election. This year, with the biggest political prize in Kentucky up for grabs, Republican Gov. Matt Bevin is seeking a second term and three prominent Democrats are among those stanley cup competing for a chance to unseat him.For politicians flocking to the track, Derby Day presents opportunities and limitations. It s a chance to be seen as TV crews look for notables to interview.There are seemingly countless hands to shake, but retail politicking can offer mixed results. With peop water bottle stanley le from around the country converging on the Louisville track, a candidate is as likely to encounter a non-Kentuckian as they are someone who s eligible to vote for them. They don t have signs saying, I vote in Nicholas County, said Doug Alexander, who was press secretary for Wallace Wilkinson when he was Kentucky s governor.In addition, pressing through the crowds is exhausting and time consuming.The more gentrified sections of Churchill are where politicians tend to gravitate.There, politicians have a chance to hang out with the we stanley canada ll- Mkvb President Obama s Schedule (6/22/10)
DES MOINES, Iowa - At the massive Iowa state fair, you can eat fried butter on a stick or a Hot Beef Sundae while watching livestock competitions and checking out the famous butter cow sculpture. And in between, you can also take some time to hear from most of the Republicans running for pr stanley trinkflaschen esident. A series of GOP contenders are standing up on the hay bales at the fair s soap box here on Friday, the second day of the fair. Herman Cain kicked things off under cloudy skies in the morning, offering up a preacher-style stump speech tailored to the crowd - he made a few references to the fair s pork chop on a stick, one of more than 50 foods that come in on a stick form here. Her cups stanley man Cain campaigns at the Iowa State Fair on Friday. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak Cain, dressed in blue suit pants, a button-up blue shirt and no tie, said the time had come to get government out of our pockets as a few hundred stanley thermosflasche Iowans stood watching. A few clapped and smiled as he discussed how the American people have an appetite for a non-politician like him, while others stood there stoned faced, their expressions suggesting they had seen it all before. Asked where the politicians would be speaking on Thursday, an older man at an information booth pointed to the soap box area and said where they ll be doing this - and then pantomimed shoveling manure. |
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