NPR: Candidate Bingo: Get Your Card Now

Candidate Bingo: Get Your Card Now

Filed under: Election 2008

Alice Kreit, NPR

NPR's Robert Smith just created a soothsaying tool for Election 2008 -- Candidate Bingo. Smith says he wanted a new way to tell whether a particular person was or was not about to run for president starting with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He writes:

I made up a BINGO card with all the attributes you see in candidates these days: an overwhelming desire to kiss babies and shake hands, the verbal tic of always mentioning "change" and the excessive quoting of John F. Kennedy, or Reagan, depending on your political bent. I followed Bloomberg around for the week and marked off the squares. And let's just say, I never yelled BINGO.

Get your own Candidate Bingo card from the NPR mothership.

Laura Conaway

12:35 PM ET | 01-18-2008 | permalink

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