Disrespecting A Campaign

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In order to make changes to a campaign of my candidate running for the office of the attorney general to move forward. The campaign would engage in positive and cordial campaign strategy, the use of media, and social media. Voters tend to support candidates with positive campaign strategy because of the experience of positive emotions. Naturally, people relate more with people with positive attitude than those with negative attitude. People would watch a campaign advert that is about the need of the community than a campaign advert that is about disrespecting the opponent. In order to achieve this the campaign should engage the public on policy issues facing the community and treat the opponent with respect and honesty.
According to inquiriesjoural.com “a positive campaign is a campaign in which a candidate focuses primarily on relevant issues, their own views, their own experiences, and their own virtues, without attacking their opponent in an attempt to gain votes. It should be noted that, in contrast to positive campaigns, a negative campaign is one where a candidate uses attack ads and rhetoric to deliberately frame his opponent as foolish, inexperienced, irresponsible, disconnected, or evil as a means of presenting him or herself as a more desirable alternative …show more content…

The criticism should be about the information collected not the candidate. The candidate should focus on issue that reflect the audience priorities. In the text book, political campaign and communication states that “voters’ responses to any campaign ad can be tempered by cynicism; after all, the candidates are unlikely to say anything bad about themselves or good about their opponent” (Powell and Larry, 2013 pg. 77). Thus, when the candidate ad engage in positive campaign strategy voter are more likely to listen to the ad because it is about their

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