Meet a candidate, get a refrigerator magnet. Or an emery board. Or a tiny, or sometimes big, note pad. Maybe even a bumper sticker or yard sign. And if you're really lucky, a T-shirt.
Politicians use all kinds of gimmicks, trinkets, tactics and materials to grab a voter's attention.
Shaking hands, patting backs and puckering up for babies are still staples on the stump, and probably always will be. If you don't live in or drive through Fort Thomas, you probably haven't seen the four new double-wides gracing the lawn at Highlands High School. The trailers will serve as classrooms for the overcrowded high school for the next several years, Superintendent Larry Stinson says. They are actually some of the nicest classrooms we have. Which is precisely the point, be it intended or coincidental.