Fox News showed a scene from an Obama rally in Florida in which he asked an enthusiastic audience to raise their right hands and repeat after him a swear to vote for him.
The psychology professors on Obama's team in 2008 developed this tactic. Studies showed that if a person made a verbal commitment in front of others to do something, odds were that he/she would follow through and do it. It worked for Obama when the rock stars took a short break during their concerts to elicit a commitment for an Obama vote. It was only later when gadflies like your sleepless blogger learned of it.
Now Donald Trump is doing it -- Fox News is showing a sequence from an Obama rally in which he exhorts the audience recite an oath to vote for in the upcoming primary.
Familiarity with the tactic would seem to diminish its influence, but will it work for Trump as well as it worked for Obama? We'll see.
Updated: There's a photo!
Via Instapundit with "Springtime for Hitler" comparison from Ed Driscoll.
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