Buying Power

摘要

For a novice politician, steve forbes seemed eerily serene. The media horde had descended. His opponents were attacking from all angles. The crowds jostled to get close as he moved. Yet as he rode around New Hampshire in a maroon staff" van last week, sipping Diet Pepsi from a plastic bottle, Forbes wore the confident smile of the high-school nerd who's done all the tough extra-credit homework—and devised a secret plan to blow up the chemistry lab.