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To: mike_9958
And if you extrapolate this means that elections will never again be about issues but be about influencing people via their likes and dislikes - or other emotional signals.

We have to learn to run both kinds of ads. Yes, many, many American people who vote run on their emotions. The democrats know this and constantly appeal to people's emotions. It is time for Conservatives to begin to realize the board the game is being played on and play on it.

55 posted on 11/08/2012 9:50:37 PM PST by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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” It is time for Conservatives to begin to realize the board the game is being played on and play on it.”

Your right but it really makes me angry at the America we’ve become.

Conservatives will lose their identity and the reason we are conservative. Instead we will “market” our candidates like a can of green beans, using colors, celebrities, and relationships, instead of issues.

The one with best marketing campaign wins - not the the one with best ideas. Obama ran a terrible political campaign but a fantastic marketing campaign and won. Every indicator had him losing.... and he won. The old GOP sit around trying to figure it out and can’t seem to articulate why they lost.

We lost a really important election - and we now will have a different looking nation for decades because of it.

More importantly we learned a new way to win elections on a national level where the issues and results don’t matter which will change parties and platforms forever, and will have far reaching implications.


104 posted on 11/09/2012 7:37:02 PM PST by mike_9958
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