Bad strategy or winsome loyalty?: Arch and Shelley and the campaign

ARE Shelley Moore Capito's chances for re-election helped, or arethey hurt, by the presence of her father at her campaign rallies?This is a question many ask, but not out loud.

I presume there was a strategy meeting and that Arch Moorevolunteered to make himself inconspicuous. But apparently it wasdetermined that a daughter's loyalty to her father would outweighother factors.

I tend to agree. Who among us would reject a father in similarcircumstances?

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