Alec Macgillis evaluates the style of the "low-energy goober" on the stump:
[H]e has become that sort of underdog candidate who tries desperately to make a virtue of his humble standing, who chalks his failure up to his courage to utter truths that are, in many cases, far less bold than he makes them out to be. … Making the humble-little-me tone of lines like these all the more noticeable is the delivery and body language that accompanies them — an aw-shucks monotone; the head tucked forward, turtle-like, to suggest modesty; the mouth turned down at the edges and the eyes opened wide and cast low; all of it adding up to a lugubrious expression at dissonance with the pert metrosexual look of the speaker's slim jeans and matching black and silver belt, black and silver watch and black and silver hair combed sharply back.
Larison adds two cents.
(Photo: Republican presidential candidate and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman smiles as he drives away from a campaign stop at the Bean Towne Coffee House on January 08, 2012 in Hampstead, New Hampshire. Polls show Huntsman gaining on front runner Mitt Romney ahead of Tuesday's primary. By Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images)
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