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Of course, the Obama campaign will be remembered for spectacles like Obama's stadium speech at the Democratic convention and his equally massive appearance in Berlin. But in fact, his campaign just as often deliberately chose not to maximize Obama's crowd appeal. During the primaries, where retail politics was...
In this 20-month long campaign I have seldom seen Obama bring the full power of his oratory to the biggest possible crowd his campaign can build. That is, until this week. As the long campaign nears the end, the campaign has stopped shying away from such huge audiences, and...
His rhetoric is as soaring as it was at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, but voters shouldn't be fooled - Obama is far from the same man he was four years ago, or even 21 months ago, for that matter. There are the subtle physical changes: the graying hair, the...
In introductions on the stump, South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who is one of McCain's closest friends, calls the Republican nominee "John The Fighting McCain." This fighting motif, which McCain debuted at the end of his convention speech in Minneapolis, now occupies the thematic center of McCain's message...
When McCain first delivered those lines in his convention speech, he seemed to struggle with the rhythm. Salter, his speechwriter and adviser, sat in the front row at the convention hall urging McCain not to stop the delivery as the crowd noise built. Today, McCain delivers the same words with...