"Hi, i'm bryan lentz, and i'm run-rnning for Congress," the candidate says, and hands the voter a black-and-white brochure. It is early morning in the Philadelphia suburbs on the Tuesday after Labor Day. Lentz is offering the daily communion of electoral politics, handing out brochures, shaking hands-tedious and sometimes downright unpleasant work but far less toxic than every candidate's other main activity: dialing for dollars. Lentz, a Democrat, is running to replace foe Sestak, who is a candidate for the U.S. Senate. He's a big guy, a former paratrooper and prosecutor. The black-and-white brochures are an interesting touch. Most candidates go four-color splashy these days, and Lentz had a fight with his staff over this. They wanted splashy; he wanted tabloid-style pamphlets. "They cost less," he told me. "And they look real. People open them up and read 'em like a newspaper. Look." And it was true: all along the train platform, people were reading the Bryan Lentz News.
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