Sunday, August 23, 2015

Seeing what the camera doesn't show.

The big TV cameras show one version of political events, as they point at the candidate and scan the crowd.   But there is another view of these events, the view from the audience side, amid the jostling of the crowd, the comments people make to one another, the thrill or disappointment at the size of the audience, the security arrangements.  

And perhaps most important is whether the audience thinks they are seeing the next president and are full of hope and anticipation, or whether they are watching the political equivalent of a bull fight and the slow ritual death of a doomed animal, weakened by the little stabs of bad press, disappointing fundraising, and superior competition.

There are lots of candidates but only one desk at the oval office.   We are going to see a lot of slow deaths.   I want to see it up close.

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