Wunderkind Campaign strategist Daniel Poofe deserved a break. The Presidential Campaign of 2080 been a hard-fought partisan war.
Poofe was the architect of the insurgent campaign of Congressperson Orank Bojamba, the young, brash, photogenic, telegenic, hygenic outsider whom no one thought had a chance, a political Cinderella story, the community organizer who had made good. Poofe had done what everyone thought impossible.
He had brought a brilliant, courageous and scrupulously decent and honest, fun-loving, well-groomed, bi-partisan, post-racial, bi-pedal, ambidextrous (yet humble to a fault) political phenom to the brink of the presidency for the salvation of the huperson race.
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