The ring of a doorbell last week at thresholds in Florida and Massachusetts signaled the appearance of a short (5 ft. 5 in.), pudgy man with a disarming grin. "My name is Sam Lubell," he said, "and I'm trying to report the political campaign by talking to the voters." For his pains Reporter Lubell, 44, who has been ringing doorbells since 1948, has been bitten by three dogs, taken for a masher by housewives, a salesman by husbands, and once for a C.I.O. spy. But he has also rung a new bell in political reporting: by combining shoe leather with scholarly...
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