A couple days back I ran an online story about McCain’s town hall campaign strategy. The idea was that Obama is great in front of big auditoriums, reading speeches off a teleprompter. McCain is not. But McCain is as energetic and engaging as any candidate I have seen this cycle if you take away the script and let him interact with the crowd. Here are just a few clips from McCain’s town hall in Nashua, N.H., last week. To best get my point, you can compare his town hall presentation to the stilted speech he gave on June 3 from Kenner, La.
(My thanks to Caitlin Thompson for the video editing help, and my apologies for the bad camera work.)