Posted on Jan 6, 2017
How did the difference in Republican and Democrat campaign strategies and public messaging affect the 2016 presidential election?
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The most significant corollary to this question is. How did President elect Trumps use of social media blow the democrats out of the water by totally overriding the traditional Friday to Monday news gap?
The average person...especially during the excitement of this campaign..spent huge amounts of available weekend and evening time interacting in political discussions. The social media offered a forum in which the most far out discussions and nasty rhetoric could take place without fear of immediate reprisal as might occur in face to face social interactions..
People were able to sit around in their "safe space" (haha) and say whatever the F*** went through their minds..wether they were half baked or stoned stupid..." In vino veritas" is still applicable to all.
The average person...especially during the excitement of this campaign..spent huge amounts of available weekend and evening time interacting in political discussions. The social media offered a forum in which the most far out discussions and nasty rhetoric could take place without fear of immediate reprisal as might occur in face to face social interactions..
People were able to sit around in their "safe space" (haha) and say whatever the F*** went through their minds..wether they were half baked or stoned stupid..." In vino veritas" is still applicable to all.
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I think this quote from another "common citizen" applies.
"All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems -- problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best. -- Mark Twain
"All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems -- problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best. -- Mark Twain
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PO3 John Wagner
Mark Twain also said that travel is fatal to bigotry among other things.
I think Mr Trump took a page from that book and made a paper airplane that he rode all the way to the whitehouse......Hilary seems to have flown over most of her opportunities for folding that paper...perhaps a few more campaign stops along the Mississippi might have served her well......thank God she was on an intellectual diet plan
I think Mr Trump took a page from that book and made a paper airplane that he rode all the way to the whitehouse......Hilary seems to have flown over most of her opportunities for folding that paper...perhaps a few more campaign stops along the Mississippi might have served her well......thank God she was on an intellectual diet plan
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I as a common citizen only see the public side of it. I am not a scholar of the topic.
In the past year I have seen a continual blame game however, the Democratic Party focused it's efforts unproductively.. Most of their rhetoric was fuzzy and unfocused, their candidate changing like the breeze at each campaign stop. Much time and energy was wasted looking for ways to discredit and demonize the Republican Candidate.
The republican candidate however, would stay on a reasonably focused message to each crowd, seemingly not pandering or patterning his message.
As a man who never ran for political office, but an individual with extreme business acumen, he was able to deliver a consistent message. Any successful corporate leader must be able to do so. His consistent message, solidly rammed home by the use of social media...a strategy his opponents criticized and realized far too late was the greatest tool for a political coupe ever wielded.
The republicans also had eight years of dismal policy and its failure with which to hammer the democrats relentlessly. The public media virally planted that consistent message.
It seems in retrospect to have been a doomed campaign for the Democrats. They had absolutely nothing to point to indicating real success and a track record of divisiveness no long disguisable by message variation to various constituencies.
Mr Trump,also caved in the skull of the standard media program by utilizing messaging which stood alone outside the standard Friday to Monday broadcast media dead zone.
In the past year I have seen a continual blame game however, the Democratic Party focused it's efforts unproductively.. Most of their rhetoric was fuzzy and unfocused, their candidate changing like the breeze at each campaign stop. Much time and energy was wasted looking for ways to discredit and demonize the Republican Candidate.
The republican candidate however, would stay on a reasonably focused message to each crowd, seemingly not pandering or patterning his message.
As a man who never ran for political office, but an individual with extreme business acumen, he was able to deliver a consistent message. Any successful corporate leader must be able to do so. His consistent message, solidly rammed home by the use of social media...a strategy his opponents criticized and realized far too late was the greatest tool for a political coupe ever wielded.
The republicans also had eight years of dismal policy and its failure with which to hammer the democrats relentlessly. The public media virally planted that consistent message.
It seems in retrospect to have been a doomed campaign for the Democrats. They had absolutely nothing to point to indicating real success and a track record of divisiveness no long disguisable by message variation to various constituencies.
Mr Trump,also caved in the skull of the standard media program by utilizing messaging which stood alone outside the standard Friday to Monday broadcast media dead zone.
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CPT Jack Durish
Your statements are fair, but need a little context. Keep in mind that Donald Trump is not and never has been intimately associated with either party. As a businessman he has contributed to both and negotiated for market advantage with whomever was in the catbird seat when he needed their favors. Thus, when he threw his hat in the ring, he was an unknown quantity to both and neither side trusted him. This explains why the GOP as well as the DNC opposed his candidacy. (If you've ever done business with the Japanese, you'll have a fair idea of just how important relationships are to politicians whenever you want to do business with them or garner their support.) The interesting thing is that Donald Trump won the presidency over the opposition of more than a dozen candidates and both parties. Why? That's a good question. I suspect it is more a matter of him disassociating from politics and politicians which had a popular appeal with voters.
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PO3 John Wagner
Ha s my context improved any yet. Sir?.. no really not being smart...I know my limitations and sometimes remember them.
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Nothing really. Getting elected and staying elected seems to be the prime motivations for all politicians. It'll be interesting to see how that changes if term limits are imposed on all elected offices. We'll have to drag people kicking and screaming into the various elected offices - much like jury duty - once the enticement of great wealth through peddling influence is taken off the board.
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