Or more than one. “First time I ran six years ago, I got Clark bars,” says councilman Hal Clark from Norco, Calif. He estimates that he’s bought about 5,000 bars in his years in office. In Novi, Mich., Diane Clark, wife of mayor Richard, agrees: “They were the hit of the polls that day,” she says. “Instead of literature, we just handed them a Clark bar.” Leslie Clark, the first female mayor in the history of Woodbury, N.J., relied on their magic, too. NECCO doesn’t endorse any Clark: “We’re willing to sell to anyone who’s willing to buy,” says Zimbalatti. In the 2000 election, the company filled an order for heart-shaped wafers inscribed with slogans like GO BUSH and WE LOVE BUSH.
