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There was a hilarious sidebar in today’s NYT that recounted a focus group exercise conducted in Md — here’s the scoop…

From the New York Times, May 29, 2007:

Imagine that the top presidential candidates are all at an airport trying to get on a flight. There is one seat left on the plane and there are six people ahead of them in line. What does each of the candidates do?

The scene was described last week to 12 voters at a focus group in suburban Baltimore by Peter Hart, the Democratic pollster, on behalf of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The voters — half Republicans, half Democrats, and varied by other demographics — had a pretty easy time picturing how each would behave.

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, they said, would both politely negotiate their way through the line.

John McCain would “go crazy in line,” one voter said. Another said he would “make a scene.”

John Edwards would pay the people ahead of him to get on, one person said; another said he would “turn on the Southern charm.”

Rudolph W. Giuliani “wouldn’t even stand in line,” one said. Another said he would “ask to speak to the pilot.” Someone else said he would “push his way to the front.” Yet another said he would cry out “9/11!”

Hilary Rodham Clinton, one voter said, would tell everyone ahead of her that the flight was canceled. “Her people would handle the details,” said another. A third said the Secret Service would get her a seat. One, a 23-year-old man, said: “She’d be polite, assertive and strong.”

KATHERINE Q. SEELYE

Personally, I’ll take Rudy. But holy smokes is that part about Hilary telling the other folks the flight is canceled funny.

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