"Some people don't trust Chuck, but he's the best weapon we've got, " Nelson says.

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That breakdown isn't surprising to Chuck Failla, a financial planner with Sovereign Financial in New York, who points out that the wealthy crowd is made up mostly of successful professionals whose stock holdings come predominantly from their own company.

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Why doesn't Mr McCain pick Joe Lieberman, a prominent Democrat turned independent? (The senators are seen so often in each other's company that they might be Siamese twins.) And why doesn't Barack Obama pick Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican and decorated Vietnam war veteran who has been one of the loudest critics of the Iraq war?

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