A User's Guide to Republican Candidate 'Movie Trailers'

How do you make a candidate exciting? Lens flare.
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The release of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's 2015 budget and pension reform plan was accompanied by a "movie trailer-style" promo video—15 seconds of driving music, speed effects, and zooms into the vantage point of Christie onstage.