Campaign Audio from PRX

Lots of good reporting shows very little substantive policy differences between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. So why does Obama now have nine primary victories in a row? Just listen to the differences in pacing in their speeches. Here is Hillary Clinton in San Antonio, and it sounds like she doesn’t pause enough to get applause from the crowds and build momentum. She speaks in sentences, not phrases that have rhythm. But Barack Obama, who gives pretty much the same speech time and again, has those pauses and builds momentum down.