Gore denied he was a policy wonk who was too stiff to relax and watch television.
Every politician and policy wonk suggests the usual remedies more education, retraining and infrastructure investment.
That is the advantage to having a political ideologue lead the organization as opposed to a policy wonk.
"A policy wonk, " says Joseph Tartaro, president of the pro-gun Second Amendment Foundation.
The senator is a policy wonk with the political skills, regularly applied across party lines, to put ideas into practice.
Per usual, Clinton seemed to revel in his policy wonk persona, once again compartmentalizing his life into distinct personal and professional boxes.
The third reason: Obama the policy wonk doesn't mesh with black voters.
Slowly but steadily, a new party line is taking form: Believe it or not, Bill Clinton is a crack foreign policy wonk, after all.
Ryan, 42, is considered a policy wonk and conservative Catholic likely to energize the GOP base and sharpen the campaign's focus on government spending and the economy.
Wind the clock back to 1979, and no one, not a single pundit, policy wonk, or economist, forecast the economic boom that came from the last such cycle.
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But as a policy wonk with numbers to back up his opinions, and a belligerent debater who likes to argue for the sake of arguing, he can't and won't keep his mouth shut.
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Allow your inner policy wonk to take over.
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My own taste would have him talk less like a policy wonk and more like a preacher, but as the panel demonstrated in a confused and awkward way, most of us are on the same side.
Half of last month's congressional recess was spent pressing political and policy-wonk flesh in Germany, Belgium, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia, Romania and Bosnia.
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