Many lacked political experience.

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Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, likes to claim that every voter has a formative political experience: for many black voters, it was the civil-rights era.

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The company also says it offers practical experience with the many regulatory and political institutions that affect the activities of companies abroad.

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While many such people might eventually be ready, they have not had the experience fighting in the trenches of the political world.

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