Location, location, location

Where candidates go can tell you as much as what they say. Take the Clinton, Cruz and Trump campaigns in North Carolina this week.

President Bill Clinton was in Raleigh Monday, at the City Market downtown. That’s the epicenter of the North Carolina Democratic Party today. It’s the gathering place for lawyers, new-economy entrepreneurs, urban empty-nesters and millennials, the party faithful and the political-academic-NGO complex.

Ted Cruz goes where the evangelicals go to church. Today he’s at Calvary Baptist Church and School near Wake Tech south of Raleigh. That’s 15 minutes from downtown by car, and  180 degrees by political compass.

And Donald Trump? He’s having a rally in Fayetteville Wednesday. But he doesn’t worry about where voters work or hang out or go to church. He just finds the biggest hall available. And his fans flock to him.

 

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Location, location, location

Where candidates go can tell you as much as what they say. Take the Clinton, Cruz and Trump campaigns in North Carolina this week.

President Bill Clinton was in Raleigh Monday, at the City Market downtown. That’s the epicenter of the North Carolina Democratic Party today. It’s the gathering place for lawyers, new-economy entrepreneurs, urban empty-nesters and millennials, the party faithful and the political-academic-NGO complex.

Ted Cruz goes where the evangelicals go to church. Today he’s at Calvary Baptist Church and School near Wake Tech south of Raleigh. That’s 15 minutes from downtown by car, and  180 degrees by political compass.

And Donald Trump? He’s having a rally in Fayetteville Wednesday. But he doesn’t worry about where voters work or hang out or go to church. He just finds the biggest hall available. And his fans flock to him.

 

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