He has the mastered the art of the town-hall meeting.Sometime in political.The medium rally is the message.Put Barack Obama in an area with 20,000 supporter or at an outdoor city rally with nearly four times that many,and it hardly matter what he says.The sheer spectacle speaks for itself-something unusual is happening,and a lot of people want to be part of it.
The same can be said of John McCain,though his trademark medium is comparatively modest.Instead of the massive event,McCain is most at home in the town-hall meeting,a modern twist on the old New England civic institution,in which neghibors gather to anticipate in pure democracy.For McCain,the town hall is more than just a chance for him to spread his message of staying the course in Iraq and cutting taxes and spending.The gathering is itself the message he wants to deliver.
Those town-hall meetings are the most important part,in my view,of the process,because it not only gives you a chance to hear from me.And I'll try not to make you hear from me very long.But it gives me a opportunity to hear from you.McCain said recently at a town hall in central New Jersey.It gives us a glimpse and a ideal of your hopes and your dreams and your aspirations and your frustrations today and the challenges that your face and better sets our priorities,and it helps me enormously.McCain overstates the transactional value of there events.In the hundreds of town hall he has held,few interactions have had any real effect on his policy positions.One exception is global warming,an issue McCain says he was altered to at town halls during his 2000 campaign.But even if the town halls are less interactive then he claims,it's hard to overstate their importance to his candidancy or how much better they showcare him then his normal campaign speeches.On the night Obama wrapped up the nomination before a crowd of thousand in St.Paul Minn.McCain delivered stiff,formal speech from Louisiana Before a wall the door of Kermit the Frog.He came across as nervous and stilted,his eyes fixed on the teleprompter as he emphasized the wrong words.In such settings,McCain can appear impatient,if not phony.He tried to cover up his discomfort with joyless flashes of a sideways grim.
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