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Sweetheart of the Heartland

By Robert Stacy McCain on 9.10.08 @ 12:08AM

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"We'll match it and better it. We always do," Prince says. "We do it with volunteers. We don't pay staff -- and I think that's their weakness....They go out and hire a bunch of college students. I don't think they get the performance that we do out of our people."

Many of those people are pro-life Christians, and Prince says it's a "big plus" that McCain chose as his running mate a woman whom evangelicals embrace as one of their own.

As the morning gloom gave way to fair skies yesterday, Prince's biggest concern was the most recent Rasmussen poll showing the McCain-Palin ticket ahead by 7 points in the Buckeye State.

"I'm actually kind of more comfortable being the underdog. We're not used to being ahead in September. But this," he said, gesturing toward the volunteers crowding around the front desk of the county GOP headquarters. "If we can keep it rolling, we'll take it right on in. We certainly have the momentum now."

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