The manager who takes it on chin for his boss

BARACK OBAMA’S Ohio campaign manager has neither shaved his face in a month nor has he shown up to the office without his Columbus Clippers baseball hat.

Aaron Pickrell associated Obama’s good performances in the Ohio polls in late September with his personal hygiene and wardrobe choices at that time, so he kept the look.

The final days of the campaign have been a mix of strategy and superstition for those most intimately involved. They fret over the precision of early voting numbers and polling but also take comfort in the unscientific rituals that have provided some sense of control in a wildly unpredictable political season.