You’re paranoid. All politicians do this.
You are paranoid, the normal time span for a message is about 5 appearances then it begins to change, but keeps a few of the key points that fire people up.
“You’re paranoid. All politicians do this.”
I heard Dick Armey give a stump speech supporting a Republican candidate on three different occasions. It was three different candidates, three different years — and the exact SAME speech.
Right on down to the SAME joke about how his wife would kill him if he ever let an intern do a Lewinsky on him. (”How do ya reload this thang?”
How true.
In the run up to the 2000 and 2004 elections my wife and I went to see President Bush.
Had to get at the venue hours in advance, big crowds, long lines, long wait, then the whole thing in reverse.
In both instances he gave almost exactly the same speech we saw on the TV news day after day.
People go to hear and see their candidate in person.
It's not often you will hear something entirely new.
In stories about the candidates, writers who travel with them often refer to "the standard stump speech" and how they themselves can recite it by heart after a time.