The Speech as Campaign Template

The strength of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech lay not in its eloquence but in the candidate’s determination to answer, methodically and clearly, the remaining doubts about him.

Woven into the theme of America’s promise, Obama methodically answered the hard questions. Is he an exotic elitist, remote from the concerns and values of the sinking American Read More

Marketing!

Ever since the Obama campaign announced that Barack Obama would be giving his acceptance speech of the Democratic nomination inside Invesco Field at Mile High—the enormous stadium where the Denver Broncos play football—critics and supporters alike have wondered whether the spectacle played too readily into the “Obama as celebrity” storyline that the McCain campaign has Read More