Doyle McManus: Is Beto O'Rourke just another pretty face?
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Mar 17, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - The most striking thing about the Democrats' newest presidential candidate is that he's so hard to pin down.
Even though Beto O'Rourke spent six years as a congressman from El Paso, he has offered few specific positions on issues. Instead, he mostly deploys sunny attitudes; he's for unity, bipartisanship and everyone pulling together.
"Let us not allow our differences to define us," he told voters in Iowa. He's a lanky, toothy Rorschach test; Democrats can project almost any view onto him they like.
That's unlikely to work long
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