GOFFSTOWN, N.H. - A convention preview, maybe?
The stagecraft for the town hall-style event featuring Mitt Romney and Paul D. Ryan at Saint Anselm College Monday morning has been stepped up significantly, according to reporters who follow the campaign regularly.
There's a giant video screen that has been playing a biographical video of Mr. Romney and the campaign. A huge banner proclaiming “America's Comeback Team†is hung on the ivy-covered walls of one of the school buildings. The bleachers are strung with red, white and blue.
Seats are set up around two stools in the middle of the crowd in the grassy quad. Four big speakers are blasting the campaign soundtrack.
This will seem l ike small potatoes in a week, when the Republican faithful gather in Tampa, Fla., for their national convention. But for now, this is as slick as it gets.
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