Obama Steals Hillary’s ‘Listening Tour’ Trick
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Whenever the American people get tired of Hillary Clinton’s joyless tirades, the candidate switches things up by going on a “listening tour.” These are wonderful public events in which people get to say they went to a Clinton rally without having to suffer through 40 minutes of hectoring. Instead, voters get some time to bitch at the candidate who sits there in blessed silence and then reaps a few points’ bounce in the polls. It is basically the most brilliant campaign innovation since the push poll. So now, of course, plagiarist Barack Obama is doing some sort of “listening” event in Clinton’s stronghold of Western Pennsylvania. MORE »
Whenever the American people get tired of Hillary Clinton’s joyless tirades, the candidate switches things up by going on a “listening tour.” These are wonderful public events in which people get to say they went to a Clinton rally without having to suffer through 40 minutes of hectoring. Instead, voters get some time to bitch at the candidate who sits there in blessed silence and then reaps a few points’ bounce in the polls. It is basically the most brilliant campaign innovation since the push poll. So now, of course, plagiarist Barack Obama is doing some sort of “listening” event in Clinton’s stronghold of Western Pennsylvania. MORE »
