Hillary Embarks on Listening Tour 2.0

NYT/AP: Clinton Embarks on Listening Tour 2.0
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 23, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An upbeat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton strode onstage Friday, leading the applause for herself and her supporters. She mocked her inability to sing and recalled her misjudgments on health care in her husband's first term.

This is Clinton in her favored political habitat, what her campaign calls the ''conversation.'' It's a hybrid of President Clinton's freewheeling town halls, with a dash of President Bush's more tightly scripted forums.

Studiously spontaneous, it is engineered to showcase her as warm, funny, accessible -- and to shatter preconceived notions of the chilly, calculating former first lady.

''The goal of our campaign events is to let people get a firsthand look at Senator Clinton so they can draw their own impression of her,'' said campaign spokesman Phil Singer.

Call it Hillary's Listening Tour 2.0 -- an updated version of her tactics during the 2000 campaign for a New York Senate seat....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Clinton-2008.html

I was just so impressed with Hillary's first Senate campaign, when she won over upstate NYers, and I'm interested in this tactic, which is supposed to have spun off that successful campaign.