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The city's first citizen, the Lord Mayor, a woman, was forthright in her condemnation of the ban as petty.
Potential presidents--like astronauts, Olympic athletes, and other Americans playing on an international stage--still had to carry a lot of symbolic baggage: They had to appear as forthright champions in a historic contest, disciplined leaders who embodied national values.
By contrast, when the stakes are as high as they can get, there is a special need for elected officials to avoid having a forthright opinion.
(John McCain is a hard case, being conventionally brave and forthright but also kind of a cutup; his crack about propping up a dead Alan Greenspan à la Weekend at Bernie's was very fin de siècle .) However, to give an appropriate nod to the underdogs, the TR model also speaks well for the chances of Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, and Alan Keyes (none of whom has an ironic or decadent bone in his body, as far as Chatterbox can see).
Today's Papers applauds the NYT for attending to a commonly overlooked, yet always-important detail: forthright disclosure of the poll's plus or minus margin of error.