(Three candidates are on the ballot: the machine candidate Joe Harrison (Earle S.Dewey), McMurphy, and Willie Stark.)During whistle-stop campaigning for the position, Willie speaks to the people about a "balanced ax program," but urns off potential voters by his wooden and leaden style and reliance on facts and statistics.He speculated it could be a cure for Alzheimer""s Disease, or could treat a wide range of brain disorders - with "the potential o save lives.Something that I must ask you...Would you wash out a pair of socks for me?...It""s just my way of telling you that I love you, that""s all.But then, Mrs.Whitehead intrudes, just when Spaulding feels he has Mrs.Rittenhouse on "the five-yard line." He works on Mrs.Whitehead too, complimenting her on her beautiful eyes.He looks toward Mrs.Rittenhouse and includes her, and merges them into one individual: "And so have you." Conversely, he splits himself into two - he describes and then acts out hisownfacial expressions: "He shot her a glance (he shoots his eyes sideways) - as a smile played around his lips (he flutters his own lips)." [His words are prophetic, since the political boss has underestimated the depth of his convictions.""TODAY," flesh-eating, recently-dead zombies (or undead "walkers") were "pretending to be alive," going through the motions of being human and reliving aspects of their former lives (a zombie band played in a town""s gazebo, a young dating zombie couple romantically held hands together, etc.