Yesterday, I received two emails, which I think provide an interesting contrast. Terry McAuliffe, Chairman of Hillary Clinton for President wrote to me to say,

When I turn on the TV all I hear is negative words. The news stations keep telling you that we're down and out. But that's plainly not true. I'm on the trail every day for Hillary and the crowds are bigger than ever before, and let me tell you - they are excited!

I wanted to show you a video from a recent event with Hillary in North Carolina - you can see for yourself Hillary's packed events and enthusiastic supporters.

Click here to watch the video.

For some reason, the old line from Monty Python came to mind, “I’m not dead, yet!”. I’ve been in many crowds like what the video shows and I wonder how many of my pundiocracy friends will be mutter about Potemkin villages. Beyond that, the ask, to the extent that there is one, didn’t very compelling. Watch a video. Don’t give up hope. It seems just to reinforce the idea that we are in the endgame and Hillary is way behind.

The other email I received was from the Obama campaign.

Right now, you can help build a base of support for Barack in Indiana and bring more voices into the political process.

To participate in Indiana's primary, voters must be registered by this Monday, April 7th.
Tens of thousands of Obama supporters may not be registered yet, and we need to act quickly to reach out to as many of them as possible.

Each call you make could be another vote for Barack in an area where we need your help the most.

Instead of bewailing that everyone else is say things are falling apart. The narrative here is that lots more people want to get involved, and don’t know how. So, all the insiders need to reach out to those people who want to become insiders and help them in. It is about building up the party, not only so that Obama does well in Indiana, but so that there are more registered Democrats, which will hopefully help him in the general election, as well as candidates further down the ticket.

It sure looks like Obama’s team has the better idea on how to build crowds.