{"id":6830,"date":"2010-08-31T11:35:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T15:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6830"},"modified":"2010-09-02T16:38:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:38:51","slug":"marco-rubio-is-in-a-class-by-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6830\/marco-rubio-is-in-a-class-by-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Is In a Class By Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomworks.org\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Works<\/a>-backed U.S. Senate candidates sent videotaped messages to the 1,000+ gathering of grassroots activists last Friday night.\u00a0 The differences in quality and presentation were noticeable.<\/p>\n<p>Dino Rossi (R-WA) stands in front of a campaign banner dressed in slacks and an open collar, long-sleeved shirt.\u00a0 He thanks Freedom Works and the crowd for its hard work, and gives an earnest, seemingly impromptu riff on the problems facing Washington State and America.\u00a0 Good, but not great.<\/p>\n<p>Next was Rand Paul (R-KY).\u00a0 Seated in an office environment surrounded by book shelves, Paul also sports an open collar shirt. \u00a0Like Rossi\u2019s video, Paul\u2019s looks and feels like a candidate taking a few moments out of a busy day to look directly into a camera held by a campaign operative, and doing his best to stay on message.<\/p>\n<p>Then Marco Rubio\u2019s video begins.\u00a0 After the fade-in, Rubio (R-FL) appears leaning forward on a stool with one foot on the ground as if ready to walk forward and greet the viewer.\u00a0 He\u2019s dressed in a crisp dark suit and power tie.\u00a0 His mannerisms give the subtle impression he\u2019s studied how to interact with a camera.\u00a0 His delivery is smooth and unhurried.\u00a0 Unlike Rossi and Paul, Rubio doesn\u2019t just talk to the audience members; he connects with them.\u00a0 His video is certainly shot in a studio, and his communications team took pains to mold his stump speech to fit this grassroots crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by the audience\u2019s reaction after each candidate\u2019s video, Rubio won the straw poll. No wonder the Freedom Works organizers chose to end with his submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Freedom Works-backed U.S. Senate candidates sent videotaped messages to the 1,000+ gathering of grassroots activists last Friday night.\u00a0 The differences in quality and presentation were noticeable. Dino Rossi (R-WA) stands in front of a campaign banner dressed in slacks and an open collar, long-sleeved shirt.\u00a0 He thanks Freedom Works and the crowd for its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,1742,1782,352,669],"class_list":["post-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-dino-rossi","tag-freedom-works","tag-marco-rubio","tag-rand-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6859,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions\/6859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}