Different delivery, but same audience - Boston Globe- public speaker

Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama addressed a rally at the Pan Am Flight Services hanger yesterday in Portsmouth, N. Obama arrived in New Hampshire ahead of the state's primary after winning the Iowa caucuses. Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee, the two big winners in Thursday's Iowa presidential caucuses, both talk a lot about hope. What's clear from their victory speeches in Iowa, however, is that they reach the same end in two nearly opposite styles. Obama seems most at ease with high, polished oratory, while Huckabee sounds most eloquent when he's folksy and relaxed. Huckabee is a former Baptist minister, and Obama, though trained as a lawyer, is familiar with the rich preaching tradition of African-American churches. read more

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