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Article: A Hit-and-Miss Campaign; Robb's Awkward Moments Strike an Odd Note
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- The Washington Post
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- October 22, 2000
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The cookies aren't the same. Sen. Charles S. Robb has been coming
to Pierce's Pitt Bar-B-Q here for a quarter-century, and the oatmeal
raisin cookies are his favorite--or they were--because they were big.
And they were chewy.
So as Robb (D) and three staffers prepare to break from a hasty
lunch here between events, he won't let it go. His gregarious
Republican rival, George Allen, would be shaking every barbecue-
sauce-smeared hand in the joint. But Robb marches past tables full of
lunching voters to find the answer.
What happened to the cookies?
"They're not as chewy as they used to be," Robb says to the woman