This means a huge amount of work often around the clock by teams of people with nothing to show for it for years at a time, if ever.

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Obama's communications gifts are powerful and poetic -- but round-the-clock campaigning on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, " "60 Minutes" and this press conference won't save bad policy.

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