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Your Political Guru:
Some kids think their goal is to amuse others, or have fun, but one of my son Joe knows that the whole purpose is to get the most candy you can in three hours.
Last year he showed up as an Obama supporter. He had the whole uniform, including shirt and stickers.
Now keep in mind, he is doing this in Oklahoma, and a heavily Republican part of Oklahoma City. On the face of it, this would seem to be a stupid tactic to get candy. But it was actually beautiful in its implementation . . .
If he went to a Republican house and they reacted negatively to his costume, he would ask “well isn’t this the scariest thing you can think of?” That would always crack them up and he would get an extra piece of candy for clever political comedy.
If he came to a closet Obama supporter’s house (since almost no one in our part of town was publicly supporting Obama) they would express happy surprise that someone had the guts to support Obama, and my son would get extra candy.
What was the result at the end of the evening – Joe did 20% better than anyone else trick or treating that night.
What can you learn from this kid? Read more…
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