As dumb as that sounds, stuff like that all counts! Remember bubbas' raspy/teary eyed "I feel you pain BS" he used to get elected? Unfortunately in certain segments of the population that stuff works.
(Thank God hillary can't go there,shrill witch doesn't sell very good)
Boehner did VERY well.
I loved it when Chris said something like, "let me come at this from another direction"...and John said, "I think you already have"..or close to it.
IOW...he was letting Chris know he KNEW what Chris was doing...and he wasn't going to be tripped up.
I loved how Chris tried to talk him into thinking that LOSING the House this year would be a GOOD thing in the long run for the GOP...(he must have been reading FR lately, because we have a few of those type thinkers here)...
What a putz.