But how's his hook shot?

Despite his significant built-in name recognition advantage, Republican lieutenant governor candidate George Wallace, Jr., is polling neck-and-neck with Luther Strange, a much better-funded opponent whose TV ads have succeeded in introducing him as a tall guy who can drain one from the top of the key and who incidentally also doesn't much like taxes.

So how does Wallace plan to strike back? By playing the man-of-the-people card: "I'm a Wal-Mart Republican. I'm not a Mountain Brook Country Club Republican."