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Five Candidate Pile-Up: Hillary Clinton’s “Politics of Pile On” Video
Following up on last nights Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Senator Hillary Clinton’s campaign released this video where a bunch of mean male Senators gang up on her. Not included in the video: the portion of the debate where the near-perfectly disciplined Clinton got banged around a little on the issue of drivers licenses for undocumented workers.
UPDATE: Hillary didn’t have her drivers license answer in that clip, but – staying mean – the Edwards campaign put it out there:
Thanks to HillCam, You can know the Clintons so much better
Earlier this week – impatient person that I am – I complained about the lack of releases from the Clinton campaign’s HillCam. It was no sooner than I had hit “Publish” that they started dropping clips, which you see in the playlist above.
I was so caught up watching the Dodd headquarters feed on DTV, that I didn’t get around to my reviews of the now-lively HillCam.
In three installments of the we’ve learned the following:
- There are a lot of white people in Iowa (born in Nebraska, I didn’t need HillCam to know this)
- Politicians go ga-ga over babies
- Politicians will will always stop to listen to firefighters (Rudy Giuliani is exempt from this rule)
- Bill Clinton is comfortable around a fast food counter
Not exactly groundbreaking revelations.
It’s also good to see in the second video that former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack has a new gig. I hear he makes the best blizzards in the midwest!
Before dropping out of the race to serve Derby’s and Dilly Bars, Vilsack had an excellent and very personal vLog – it’s recreated in the player on the ’08 Videos page
The moment I was really hoping to see (based on media reports from Iowa) was nowhere to be found:
CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Former Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, had a little time to kill before the start of the Independence Day parade here, so they decided to go say hello to the other presidential candidate and her spouse taking part in the festivities.
“Mr. President, how are you, Mitt Romney,” the Republican said after finding Bill Clinton working the three-deep crowd gathering along Main Ave. “This is my wife, Ann, and my son, Josh.”
After introductions were made, Romney observed that “this is kinda fun.”
“How many times you done this before?” he asked.
“Once or twice,” Clinton deadpanned.
“I bet that’s right,” Romney responded with a laugh.
Romney then began to explain to the former president that son Josh had taken it upon himself to visit all 99 Iowa counties in a massive Winnebago dubbed the “Mitt Mobile,” but Clinton seemed to already know.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, appeared Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the scrum that had quickly developed when Romney approached Bill Clinton.
“Nice to see you!” Sen. Clinton exclaimed to Romney.
Introducing Josh, Romney began to tell Sen. Clinton about his son’s plan to drive around the state.
“He’s been driving around,” Sen. Clinton shook her head knowingly, like her husband, already aware of Josh’s travels.
Proving he had been listening to how many stops Josh had made, Bill Clinton then piped up, “He’s halfway home!”
“Well, it’s a good deal,” Sen. Clinton offered
“How many counties have you hit,” Romney asked, “45?”
“About 50,” Josh quickly responded.
“Well, he’s over halfway,” Sen. Clinton said, demonstrating her knowledge of Iowa’s 99 counties. “You’ve got this built-in campaign team with your sons, boy I tell ya,” she added, good naturedly.
“There’s nothing like it,” Romney replied. “If we had known, we would’ve had more.” (The Politico)
That interaction would have been worth watching! And could have appeared on both the HillCam and MittTV…and everyone loves a crossover episode!
The New Hampshire Debate – Hitting the Angle Button
At the Democratic debate on Tuesday night, the CNN/WMUR crews weren’t the only ones toting video gear. In the midst of the YouTube primary, the campaigns were sporting crews of their own.
Throughout the day, the Dodd campaign was rolling tape in their signature cinéma vérité style. As a “pre-game show” they hosted a live video chat via ustream.tv. Even days before the debate they were generating debate-related clips, such as this one:
The Edwards campaign immediately followed the debate with a quick clip of the former Senator being marched into the hall by a drumline. Today they have a new release with an interesting film showing the Senator as he is given a walk-through of how the event will go down.
There’s a great deal to like here. I love the gentlemanly and impromptu meeting with Governor Richardson at the end. I would like to have seen footage from the debate worked into the piece – especially since CNN went to all the trouble of freeing up use of it for vLoggers and the ‘net.
Maybe it goes like this…
Open on the debate.
Show a great line from the candidate.
Then cut out.
TITLE: X Hours Earlier
Flashback to the walk through.
During the explanation of the first half, show a great line from the first half.
At the rundown on the second half, show a great line from the second half.
Wrap it up with the great hallway meeting, and a suggestion of where to find more substantive clips (captured from TV?).
I love the novelty of the piece, which taps into the exclusivity of having a campaign-controlled camera. It gives viewers a reason to watch. But, while you have them it is important to also deliver the message.
Dodd in Syndication
Because I like this idea, and because he gave me a few minutes of his time at the California Convention, I’m going to go ahead and reprint an email I just received from the Chris Dodd campaign.
In a few minutes they’ll be doing a live stream from Iowa, the beginning of D-Span – an effort to stream large amounts of Senator Dodd’s campaign live.
So, I get this email and follow the link. The video page has a place to sign-up for programming updates. But what I really like is the box of code to embed the live feed on your own site.
Dodd is in syndication!
Maybe I haven’t been paying attention, but I don’t remember seeing other candidates syndicating live video feeds.
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