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  • CAPITAL CULTURE: Smoot's girl-next-door nice, fun

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's the grind that every politician dreads: working the phones, hour after hour, asking people for campaign money.

    Of all the gushy things that fans of Julianna Smoot have to say about the Obamas' new social secretary, the most telling may be that she could make even "the ask" seem fun.