His darker skin may help persuade them that he is a man of the people.
However, there is no question that Jacob Zuma is more the man of the people.
Nor is the mayor a cuddly man of the people, the sort who unites a city.
By contrast, Mr Madelin, a Renault factory worker's boy, can claim to be a man of the people.
He is known as a keen sports fan and continues to cultivate a "man of the people" image.
That Mr Romney is not seen as a man of the people is one vulnerability Mr Obama's team will exploit.
Mr L has worked hard to project that he is a man of the people, only better: unselfish, engaged, evolved.
This president is a man of the people when he tells a bawdy story about Washington's portrait in a latrine.
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Mr Rutelli, in contrast to Mr Amato, seeks to put himself across as a man of the people rather than a professional politician.
While president, he was at pains to present himself as a man of the people, dressing up in overalls and feeding his chickens for the cameras.
Tony Banks is a parliamentary character who has made more impact on the general public than most of his colleagues, with his "man of the people" image.
But as Egypt prepares to choose its leader democratically for the first time in history, Shafik, 72, is trying to portray himself as a man of the people.
Mr Brown is a more natural and skilled politician, and has sought to portray his rival as a Harvard snob and himself as a man of the people.
At heart, Saavedra is just a simple man of the people, deeply concerned for the young son who lives with him and longing to be reconciled with his estranged wife.
When he left office at the end of his five-year presidential term last year, he went back to his home village, enhancing his reputation as a man of the people.
And when he left, going back to unassuming Bongha, he enhanced his reputation as a man of the people who, though he governed in turmoil and controversy, was at least clean.
On his home turf of north-western Uganda, however, Amin is remembered as a black leader who stood up to whites, as a rugby-playing man of the people, and as a preacher of African economic empowerment.
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"He was a genuine man of the people, and he was characterised by his high sense of values, his honesty, his integrity, his unwavering commitment to his people and human dimension, " agreed Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian council member.
Sian Berry, the co-leader of the Green Party who last month announced she would stand against Livingstone in next year's mayoral election, said that despite being elected for his "man of the people image, " Livingstone has increasingly become an agent of big business.
And it did it in the way our Founding Fathers envisioned, through the words of a man elected by the people of America to lead them.
Which is basically the same choreographed man-of-the-people look as Mitt Romney, only with more of a J.
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We cannot downplay the role of this man, who shouldered the responsibility of fighting for his people's usurped rights for 40 years.
An MP has raised concerns in the House of Commons over the parole of a man jailed for killing eight people in an arson attack on a Huddersfield home.
In 2003-2005, when the wealthiest man in Russia and one of the richest people in the world, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, decided to get involved into politics, he got sent down on charges of embezzlement and tax evasion instead, and locked up for nine years.
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And so it is that we believe, short of a declaration of war, there is nothing more serious for our elected representatives to contemplate than through the process of impeachment to undo the result of a national election and to remove the man chosen by the American people to be their president.
His rugby-loving man-of-the-people style has served him well, even if he is the Oxford and Harvard-educated son of a professor of Welsh.
But his numerous critics revile him as a cynic whose man-of-the-people persona is cover for the billions of dollars amassed by his wife and children.
Mr Wen has always delighted in an officially fostered man-of-the-people image.
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