Terrified Democrats Cancel Most Town Hall Style Meetings

After last Fall's raucous round of Town Halls, most Democrats are canceling these face-to-face style meetings. Many Democrats were afraid of the campaign consequences of starring in a YouTube video where they were acting like arrogant jerks, yelling and being yelled at by their constituents, Astroturfing the crowd through the back door and even walking out.

The NYT reported:

If the time-honored tradition of the political meeting is not quite dead, it seems to be teetering closer to extinction. Of the 255 Democrats who make up the majority in the House, only a handful held town-hall-style forums as legislators spent last week at home in their districts.

It was no scheduling accident....

An examination of public schedules for dozens of members of Congress last week showed that more House Republicans held open meetings, including several in a series of forums called America Speaking Out, which is intended to help write the party’s agenda if it wins control of Congress in November.

Viral Town Hall Meeting video with U.S. Congressman Brian Baird getting blasted by a former Marine