Is John Hickenlooper too normal to be president?

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🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In a crowded field of Democratic presidential contenders, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper makes an impression on voters as a genuine candidate, even if he's a bit quirky. He colors outside the lines of the political conventions -- a geologist by training, a brewer and restauranteur by profession, and a politician only later in life. In this episode, he talks about his temper as a child, his pragmatic approach to politics, and how he's managed to succeed in a people-driven business despite a condition commonly known as face blindness, a condition that keeps him from recognizing familiar faces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Would you say that you are undecided?
0:02.0	No, I kind of like Biden.
0:03.0	Really?
0:04.0	Yeah.
0:05.0	I really like supposed to say at this event.
0:07.0	This is for Hickenlooper.
0:08.0	I love Hickenlooper.
0:10.0	Who is he?
0:11.0	No, I just goofed on.
0:13.0	And the man of the hour.
0:15.0	All right.
0:16.0	Let's hear in Colorado. Yeah, we're in Dubuque, Iowa, over toward the eastern side of the state, and we are at a house party,
0:23.7	one of the fabled house parties at the home of Jack Wurzberger, and everybody was waiting and waiting
0:29.2	for Governor Hickenlooper, and he was running a little bit behind, and then the next thing you know.
0:37.1	Today you come in playing show tunes on that piano back at the house, right?
0:40.6	I will confess, and as you could call quirky, I never get a chance to play the piano, almost ever, and I loved it.
0:50.5	I'm Tim Alberta. I'm the chief political correspondent for Politico Magazine.
0:54.3	I got to spend 24 hours with John Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor who is now running for president.
1:02.2	Because of the sort of frame through which we have all been programmed to view politicians
1:08.7	and certainly to view presidential politics.
1:11.5	Here's a guy who, in so many ways, colors outside the lines of those conventions.
1:18.2	But he talks and he acts and he carries himself in a way that is much more similar to how
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