As the political campaign manager for Oprah’s Presidential campaign in 2012‚ I follow the five basic management functions: planning‚ leading‚ organizing‚ control‚ and staffing. Each of those functions will be important roles to the different divisions I have created. The staff and volunteers that will help the campaign are hard working people that enjoy working‚ have self-control and are trustworthy‚ like Theory Y people. All decision-makings will be a team effort. Meaning each department is able
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POLITICAL CAMPAIGN PLANNING MANUAL A STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO WINNING ELECTIONS By J. Brian O’Day National Democratic Institute for International Affairs POLITICAL CAMPAIGN PLANNING MANUAL PREFACE In preparation for the 1995 Russian Duma elections‚ NDI political trainers Ken Payne‚ Kate Head‚ and Sheila O’Connell‚ along with Russian experts Aleksei Shustov and Oleg Nikishenkov wrote the Strategic Election Planning Manual. This manual has been one of the most popular publications in the National
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This paper discusses the role of the media in political campaigns. The purpose of campaigns To understand the role of election campaigns towards the end result it is necessary to understand that two ideas exist. It is believed that the voters decide for their candidate before the campaigning starts‚ while the others believe that it through active campaigning that voters reach their decision. The purpose of political campaigns is to do one of three things to affect the voter: motivate‚ reinforce
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public agenda is translated to the policy agenda via the public sphere (Habermas 1989 [1962]). The public sphere consists of different arenas in which policy debate takes place‚ for example courts‚ public commissions‚ councils of government‚ political party meetings‚ universities‚ magazines‚ newspapers‚ radio and television (Schön & Rein 1994). Politics and the media are traditionally regarded as bearers of the public sphere‚ elevating public opinions to the policy agenda (Cobb & Elder 1972)
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Four Phases and Rhetorical Purposes of a Political Campaign Political Advertisements has three rhetorical purposes to every campaign which draw from the four phases characteristics. Previously when someone was inspired to run for office they would mainly run campaign ads on television to express themselves and how they would be most effective for the position in which they were applying for. They also used campaign ads to downplay their opponents and to gain as many supporters as possible
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part of an election is arguably the campaign process. Once a candidate is nominated in a presidential election‚ the next step is to move forward with the steps of this process. Each of the candidates will have the opportunity to use recourses‚ no matter how scarce they may be‚ to attempt to overcome their opponent with votes. Running a campaign is something that takes a lot of responsibility and a good team of people. They will have first put together a campaign strategy where a detailed comprehensive
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Campaign strategy Campaign Research Starts With Strategy and Questions To develop a campaign research plan‚ you need to know two things: 1) What are the goals of the campaign? 2) What questions need to be answered to reach those goals? This is a list of general campaign questions to help start your research process. These are not research questions. Each general campaign question should generate a list of more specific research questions. For example‚ "What is the issue/problem?" could lead
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Campaign Spending One interesting part of campaign finance is that there’s no limit on what a candidate can contribute to his own campaign. Wealthy presidential hopefuls Ross Perot and Steve Forbes donated substantial chunks of their own fortunes. Mitt Romney‚ a candidate in the presidential race‚ has been the largest donor to his own campaign by a wide margin. The Federal Elections Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971 prohibits corporations and incorporated charitable organizations from giving to or spending
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Controversy has already erupted over the financing of the 2008 presidential campaign with experts projecting costs to exceed $1 billion (Sciffman). Candidate Hillary Clinton raised $8.5 million during only three events‚ surpassing the old record set in 2004 by John Edwards‚ who collected $7.4 million in three months (McAuliff). Vast amounts of money is being spent and raised on campaigns‚ and efforts to curb fundraising and spending have had only limited effects. Serious questions are being asked
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What is Political Advertising? Advertising whose central focus is the marketing of ideas‚ attitudes‚ and concerns about public issues‚ including political concepts and political candidates. The essential task of political advertising is to gain the confidence of the people for their acceptance of ideas and‚ in the case of political campaign advertising‚ to influence their vote. Political advertising differs from commercial advertising in that the product is either a person or a philosophy rather
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