Who Are Those People Behind Bloomberg and Thompson?

Another election campaign has finished. Mike Bloomberg and Bill Thompson have done their best to gain votes. I guess that there are good and bad campaigh managers. But all of them, in the United States and abroad insist on a shabby performance: to place people behind the candidates while they deliver speeches. In the best of the cases, these men and women hold a poster. The problem is that if the candidate talks quite a lot, and they use to, the picture of the people behind is a little bit ridiculous and forced.

But it can be even worse. I suppose that the campaign teams think that if there is nobody behind the candidate people will think that he is alone. And, following the reasoning of the campaign teams, if a candidate appears on TV with nobody behind, the candidature is dead.

It would be easy to have lot of people sitting in front of the candidate, listening to his message. Why that never happens? Maybe because often there is NOT a lot of people there. In some acts, there are journalists, politicians and nobody else. So it is more reliable to ask to a dozen people if they would be so kind to stay there with their best interesting faces for a while. But they are not actors and actresses and some times you can see in them that they don't give a damn what is happening here. When a mayor or a president inaugurates a monument, a road or whatever, you can have from hardhats to doctors or students behind the speaker. Now and then, it works. But campaign teams can not control everything. The video of a kid getting bored is just one of the most famous examples. Enjoy it.