Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Texas & Ohio Primaries Speeches: Give me your tired, your poor...

Looks like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Mike Huckabee all pulled out the same rhetorical strategy during last night's Texas and Ohio primaries speeches. The cast of characters called in to appeal to our emotions included:
  • a sleepy student getting only 3 hrs of sleep
  • a mother with mortgage woes
  • an elderly woman making a $3.01 campaign donation
  • a single mother worried about health care
  • a little girl wondering about homelessness
  • a marine corps guy waiting for medical care
  • a Michigan truck driver
  • a housewife auctioning off her wedding ring
  • a janitor with a wife in a wheelchair
Also seems like the candidates agreed on invoking 3 characters each. I've edited their speeches into a little YouTube video:

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