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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Campaign Fight Songs ...

From today's NY Times:

Campaigns use music at rallies for two purposes. The first is to pump up the crowd, with exciting anthematic music designed to stir the soul and get the adrenaline flowing. (That, by the way, is the real reason U2 exists).

But the second is to underline the candidate's message. Bill Clinton did this famously in 1992 with the Fleetwood Mac song "Don't Stop" (Thinking about Tomorrow).

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