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What can they do to make it up? I can see one big thing that came from radio the other day - the afternoon guy at KTRH had put together a few call-in afternoons where they're going to get each of the candidates on and let them answer questions from the callers.
Bell and Perry both wanted nothing to do with it: Strayhorn and Friedman immediately wanted in.
That almost makes me want to vote for one of the two of them just on principle alone. If you're not willing to talk to the voters in a non-handled, unscripted situation, you don't deserve to be governor.