Blackmailing an opponent, the step that Henry Fonda rejects in The Best Man, doesn't bother Jack Stanton in Primary Colors.

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Because they need his help, they take his hand, with the same mixture of regret and relief with which so many people take Jack Stanton's.

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Well, what can you do but cry when you've devoted yourself to a candidate like Primary Colors' Jack Stanton--charming, idealistic in some ways, but more than a little slippery?

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