Politico.com le dedica esta mañana un artículo al evocador lugar escogido por Huntsman para oficializar su candidatura: el Liberty State Park de Jersey City.
(...) The park, located in Jersey City, offers a camera shot with dramatic views of the Manhattan skyline and, more important, a photo op with the iconic Statue of Liberty (located in nearby New York Harbor) in the background.
The park is where Jesse Jackson, amid tensions with Jewish voters in 1988, laid a wreath at a monument honoring American soldiers who liberated Jews from World War II German concentration camps. In that same campaign, then-Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) appeared with Michael Dukakis at the site, delivering his endorsement in an old terminal – now a museum - that had once processed Dukakis’ grandmother after she had arrived from Greece as an immigrant.
Six years later, Bill Clinton found yet another use for the park. He used the venue to deliver a memorable health care speech that turned contentious—at one point he banged the podium so hard in response to protesters that the presidential seal fell off.
Yet Liberty State Park’s most famous political event took place on Labor Day 1980, when Ronald Reagan used it for his general election kickoff.
The site was perfectly suited for his needs at the time. Reagan’s Midwest coordinator, Frank Donatelli, explained that the campaign strategically scheduled lots of events in the Northeast and Midwest to appeal to blue-collar ethnic Catholic voters, many of whom were dissatisfied with Jimmy Carter.
(...) The composition of the Liberty State Park crowd also furthered Reagan’s aims. The campaign bused in as many white ethnics as it could, putting a premium Eastern Europeans whose homelands were held captive by the Soviet Union, including Poles, Czechs, Estonians and East Germans.
(...) Huntsman’s top strategist, John Weaver, is also a fan of Statue of Liberty imagery. New York gubernatorial candidate Steve Levy, who Weaver also advised, used Battery Park City—on the New York side of Lady Liberty—to make his downstate campaign announcement last year.
With its homage to Reagan, its location in the New York media market and great photo op potential, it’s hard to find a better place for a largely unknown, former Western governor to make his debut. (...)
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Excepcional candidato. Para mi va a ser una de las grandes sorpresas junto con Perry. Los cuatro candidatos republicanos, Romney, Perry , Huntsman y Pawlenty son muy buenos y estoy seguro que uno de los cuatro será Presidente.
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