Sunday, January 20, 2008

2008 presidential race

While Hillary Clinton is a huge front runner in the race for the 2008 White House, Barak Obama holds quite an air of charisma, especially with black voters.

He holds a vocal command over his audience with a deep and hard hitting inflection.

Regardless of whether you are democrat or republican or any other party line, you must admit that there are only a limited number of candidates who have the charisma to control a presidential audience.

When you are speaking to people on a national level, you have to talk on a different level than when you speak to a region or township.

Obama manages to transcend this boundary quite while who someone who is not seasoned in Washington.

Perhaps since the Iraq war, CNN and Fox News pundits, as well as many others, only manage to talk about the issues so much. A big area of recognition that is probably overlooked, is a candidates ability to sell.

It's clear in the world of sales, the sales industry and business in general, that in order to win, you have to have PR ability. Ability to speak and control the conversation, to have the credibility, to have the integrity or appearance thereof so that you may convince people that you are the one to take advice from.

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