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Dean yells. I mean LOUD. The others may raise their voices, but their eyes don't bulge-out, and their veins don't become visible, and they don't go up on their tippy-toes when they raise their voices. Dean does all of this at once, all while screaming what the audience has been hungry to hear for such a long time.
Not only that, but his speaking style invites the crowd to respond likewise. I went to his speech in Austin - the crowd was SCREAMING back. A very real, heartfelt, top-of-one's-lungs, visceral response. There was something primative, something cathartic about raising one's voice so loud with a few thousand other people. It felt great, and his reaction to the crowd's screams only amplified things. Old people screaming, young people screaming, little kids joining-in, dogs with Dean bandanas looking perplexed.. it all added-up to a circus-like atmosphere, and there Dean was, in the middle - the ringmaster. Wasn't that the name of a Jerry Springer movie? Ahh!
Another thing I notice his campaign doing.. it's always "announcing" something..
"We're going to have pet pictures online!" "We're going to buy advertisements {here}!" "We're going to raise $xxx in yyy days!" "We're going to be all over the place this week!" "By the way, another Republican just endorsed me!"
His campaign is hitting us with little surprise after little surprise, and the media is eating it up! It's the positive version of "drip drip drip."
That's what I think.
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