The ability of GOP pols to gather all white audiences for speeches will never cease to amaze me

[MrScorpio]

Let's say that I'm accustomed to an America that's a bit more diverse.

[Skittles]

1. they are surprised by "articulate" black folk

yes INDEED

[Cleita]

2. I wouldn't be surprised if they are the same white audience being bussed

in like Bush/Cheney did.

[jsmirman]

3. I don't know what's more incredible

the monochromatic audiences, or their audacity in trying to stick the one person they've dragged into the room into center frame.

[Jack Sprat]

4. Not just that, but

they all have their smileys on and there's always some old dude with a VFW cap.

[MrScorpio]

5. Santorum is doing it right now

The amazing thing about Romney's audience from just a few minutes ago is that he did it in Suburban Chicago, which I know for a fact has a large Latino population.

I don't know this America.

[Old and In the Way]

6. I thought it was a family reuniuon he was speaking to.

And Mitt was the toastmaster (non-alcoholic beverages, of course). He's a terrible speaker. Steps on his jokes/punch lines. Rambles on, stringing buzz words and ideas into some kind of stream of conscious peon to his values. Boring and uninspiring.

[Old and In the Way]

7. The daughters have nice conservative dresses on.

Looks more like a fundie Pentacostal family unit than a Catholic one...fits the Santorum image he wants to project. Moron is dissing climate change? 2200 heat temp records broken in the US this month.

Both Mitt and Rick's victory crowds are pretty subdued. Applause on cue, but not a lot of energy in these rooms.

[arcane1]

8. It's not an ability, it's a side-effect

They are the only ones who want to show up!

[freshwest]

9. Me too. It always looks unnatural to me.

[fluchen]

10. The KKK gets all white audiences too

the GOP is milking the Southern Stratergy for all it is worth and will contine you do so for as long as they can get people to vote for them.

Sadly it is working and working very well.

[Leftist Agitator]

11. Old (and uneducated) white people (mostly males) are all the GOP has left.

And rightly so. Good riddance to bad rubbish!