Richard Winters, a government professor in New Hampshire, discusses Daschle's chance of winning the presidency in today's Argus Leader:
"Part of it's physical," Winters said. "I'm 6-21/4 and 180 pounds. Voters here like big, tough-talking, inspiring policy wonks. That's a tough, tough recipe, and I'm not sure Daschle has it."
Daschle in fact is 5-foot-8, tan and trim at age 58. He runs three or four miles a day, keeps a mental rolodex on people he meets and carries one prop, a water bottle.
"He has a short, Cassius quality about him. He looks lean and hungry," Winters said.
Daschle also carries with him the South Dakota factor, a quality that's oddly elusive for someone who represented the state 26 years in Congress. He calls himself a South Dakotan - "absolutely," he said last week - though he lives in Washington, D.C., and works there as a lobbyist.
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