Tim Snoddy, a 51-year-old accountant and consultant for legal cases, was a frequent business traveler who left his Lexington home many times a year to spend a total of six months away at his offices in Asheville, North Carolina, and near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Lexington would plump for Mitt Romney, a youthful-looking 60-year-old with plenty of executive experience a former governor of Massachusetts who rescued the Salt Lake City winter Olympics from disaster.

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