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With information highways and micromedia, the demand on politicians today is perhaps the greatest it has ever been. Officeholders and candidates future and present are in continual need of education on constantly changing issues, popular debates and the technologies affecting the political world.
One person who perhaps has the same impact on politics that Yogi Berra had on baseball is Lisa Britton Nelson, executive director of GOPAC, the Republican political action committee. She even thinks a lot like Berra in the way she imagines state and local politicians as the "farm team," training to someday run the country in the big leagues of Washington, DC.
Founded by Pete Du Pont 15 years ago, GOPAC's primary mission is to educate and train potential candidates for state, local and federal races in the nuts and bolts of political campaigning. "On a number of different fronts, we will take a candidate and teach them how to fundraise, how to analyze polling data,...