He connected all of the items with a web of red lines - to try to piece together the puzzling evidence and information.(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.Don""t sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.While she indignantly belly-aches at his insults with loud, grating utterances such as "Ah-ah-aw-aw-oo-oo!", he delivers a well-aimed tirade at the deterioration of the English language.[Note: The film was eerily reminiscent of the same year""sA Face in the Crowd (1957)by director Elia Kazan, in which Andy Griffith also portrayed a meteoric rise by a country-hick, guitar-playing singer in jail who became an instant mass-media star and power-hungry political idol on television.