O’Malley Makes His Case in New Hampshire

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) was in New Hampshire last night where he “made an aggressive and at times impassioned case for executive leadership, framing his approach as mayor of Baltimore, and the ‘Believe’ campaign he launched there more than 10 years ago, as a strategy that should be applied at the national level,” Ruby Cramer reports.

“Before O’Malley took the dais, he was introduced by a three-minute glossy black-and-white video… that described the Baltimore campaign… The video, produced by Jimmy Siegel, Eliot Spitzer’s longtime ad man, looked like a campaign spot, just as easily as O’Malley’s talk sounded like the platform of a national campaign in the making. The speech, focusing almost exclusively on Baltimore, was a major departure from O’Malley’s previous political appearances.”

Here’s the video: