Men of the people?
A pair of blue-blooded candidates try to connect with regular folks
By Kenneth T. Walsh and Dan Gilgoff
Posted 10/3/04
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In the end, however, Bush and Kerry seem to have paid little political price for their blue-blooded backgrounds. "The country is more comfortable with inherited wealth than you might suspect," says a Democratic strategist. "People think you are not motivated by money, by greed. They think you are more likely to be honest, that nobody is going to bribe you."
Bush and Kerry are hoping, of course, that all this is true--even as they spend the next month arguing that their privileged backgrounds didn't isolate them from the country and its problems.
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