Questions tagged [campaigning]
Questions related to the process of working in an organized and active way towards a goal from a political standpoint (an example could be a politician campaigning to run for office).
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What is the point in yard signs in presidential elections?
I just don't see that there is any possible benefit, in the case of presidential elections anyway. I don't think there are many, if any, registered voters who haven't heard of Donald Trump or Joe ...
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What does the POTUS do, exactly?
It seems that the main avenues available to the President of the United States (POTUS) to exercise his will are:
Vetoing bills
Hiring and firing top employees in federal government
Appointing supreme ...
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Why do politicians create more advertising badmouthing their opponents, rather than promoting themselves?
I live in Iowa and have been inundated with a lot of political advertising everywhere (TV, mail, internet) as the 2020 US election approaches. It seems to me that most of the political advertising ...
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Why are Democrats mostly focused on increasing healthcare spending, rarely mentioning any proposals for decreasing the costs of healthcare services?
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are currently the two most prominent candidates campaigning for universal healthcare, as an expansion of Obama's original Affordable Care Act. However their plans ...
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What happens if it is proved that "vote leave" campaign broke campaigning laws?
This Guardian article argues about connections between Cambridge Analytica and Brexit referendum.
There is a paragraph that tells us about some restrictions related to how information and money can ...
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Ban on all campaign finance?
There is a lot of rhetoric surrounding how politicians in the US obtain money for their campaigns. I am wondering why it is necessary for politicians to have any money for their campaigns, small ...
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Are there examples of politicians resigning after failing to fulfill an electoral promise?
Politicians love making promises during election campaigns, often with explicit deadlines on when said promise would come to fruition. But are there examples in recent history where a politician (or ...
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How do campaign rallies gain candidates votes?
In my mind, only people that are already excited about the candidate would go. This means the attendees are mostly voting for the candidate anyway. Obviously this is not the whole story, rallies must ...
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Why would the Lincoln Project campaign *against* Sen. Susan Collins?
As I understand it, The Lincoln Project is anti-Trump Republicans.
So why would they campaign against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)? And not only that, but campaign the hardest of any Senate election?
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Has Trump managed to implement any of his anti-corruption (lobbying reform) campaign proposals?
In a 2016 article, the BBC noted some (four) proposals of then-candidate Trump:
Currently, anyone spending less than 20% of their time engaged in lobbying can call themselves an "adviser" ...
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What is the political significance of FEC fundraising deadlines?
Every so often, I receive mass emails from political campaigns urging me to make a donation in advance of an FEC fundraising deadline. They claim that it's really important for them to reach some ...
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What's the explanation behind Obama's joke about Bernie Sanders?
I am French and not well-informed on everything happening with the US election. Hence my puzzled state when hearing the joke Obama made about Bernie Sanders:
You look like a million bucks. Or, to ...
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Who pays for the President's campaign trips?
Not specific to any one president or party but using Trump as the most recent example.
Trump has been on the road for weeks campaigning for the Republican Party midterm elections. I've searched ...
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Does the Trump tower meeting differ from standard opposition research?
As events of the Trump tower meeting unfold, President Trump has repeatedly cast the meeting in the light of a typical attempt at opposition research. Previously he has said:
"I think from a ...
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What is the significance of the people standing behind the speaker?
I've always wondered about why there sometimes a crowd is visible behind a public speaker such as a politician. It seems to be a predominantly American thing, especially noticeable during campaign ...
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What prevents a winning candidate from breaking their campaign promise after the election?
In theory, the citizens vote for candidate X because they share their electoral offers or promises, but sometimes those candidates don't do what they said. So my question is:
What prevents a winning ...
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What type of corruption did Trump campaign against?
In conversation with a young person recently, I mentioned that Washington, DC, had a lot of corruption when I lived there, e.g. if you couldn't get a building permit on the up and up, you could get ...
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Who pays for "campaign rallies," nearly 4 years out?
A number of President Trump's recent appearances around the country have been described as "campaign rallies." (Police use tear gas..., Trump, on Long Island,..., Trump threatens shutdown...) Though, ...
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Is it typical for candidates to change their looks based on voter profiles?
One TV series includes the following scene: the wife of one of the presidential candidates is shown several pictures of herself and advised by one of the campaign stuff that based on focus groups it ...
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What is the evidence for the Trump/Russia investigation?
I'm pretty confused about the whole thing. All I've really heard about it is people's insistence that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to sway the 2016 presidential election. I'...
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Why was Çavuşoğlus (planned) campaign visit to The Netherlands and Germany controversial?
In March 2017, the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte declared that the Turkish minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was not welcome to campaign among eligible Turkish voters in The Netherlands for a yes vote in ...
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Does commentary on interviews have more effect on voters than interviews themselves?
I was watching the following reaction video from The Thick of It.
Which got me thinking: has there been any research (probably meta-research involving other studies) on whether commentary is more ...
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Why do US politicians spend so much on campaigns when the salary is not high enough to justify the expenditure?
Hillary Clinton spent so much on her 2008 presidential campaign that she had a campaign debt of over $30 million. The annual salary of a US president is only $400,000. Even if Hillary were successful, ...
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What is Donald Trump's plan surrounding the US-Mexico border wall?
Has Donald Trump laid out a plan for the Mexico border wall or ever talked about it with more detail to clarify what his ultimate plan and goal may be to build a wall?
Can anyone think of any reason ...
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Have there been any studies that show that advertising for an election has an effect on who wins?
Have there been any scientific studies that show whether or not spending money on advertising and campaigning has an effect on the outcome of an election? I can think of several elections where the ...
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How tightly can a 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) operate as the same organization?
For example, 350.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (according to its footer, bottom right) but signing up for its e-mail list or otherwise supporting it means a person would also wind up ...
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I'm Jesse Talavera-Greenberg, and I approve of this message
I'm Jesse Talavera-Greenberg, and I approve of this message.
If I were running for US president, would I have to say that in my televised campaign ads? If so, why?
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Does a presidential runner up get automatic security clearance in the US?
I was wondering the case where a hypothetical candidate makes a campaign promise, and after getting access to classified briefings may come to believe that their promise cannot be fulfilled because it ...
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As a supporter, what is the most impactful way of helping a political campaign win?
Let's say new Gubernatorial elections are coming up in the US and you are dead set on doing everything possible to help your candidate win.
What would be the most impactful legal way to do so, in ...
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In U.S. local politics, what is the relationship between a campaign and a party?
The U.S. uses a weak party system: candidates can run under a party's name with little or no support or recognition from that party.
In an organizational sense, how does a local political party ...
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Why would being "almost the end of the second quarter for fundraising" be a reason for US presidential candidates not being "out there quite as much"?
In CNN's June 14, 2023 'He’s scared s***less’: Hear John Kelly’s blunt take on Trump indictment at about 08:23, CNN's Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny says:
So one of the reasons the ...
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Have there been precedents of presidential campaigns communicating with foreign governments during the election campaign?
It's reported this week that "Trump aides were in constant touch with senior Russian officials during [the presidential] campaign".
In the CNN article linked above, it states that it's not ...
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Does a ban on political campaigning on the day before the election affect the outcome?
Electoral silences, also known as cooling-off or blackout periods, are enforced in some countries to allow time for voters to reflect before casting their votes. During this period no active ...
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What arguments can be given in favour of financial barriers for participation in elections or electoral debates?
From this comment comes the quote:
on a practical level, if you suck as a politician THAT much that you can't raise a paltry $50k in a country with 300Mil population, you clearly don't have enough ...
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What difference does a winter election make?
The last December election took place almost a century ago, in 1923. Why are winter elections so rare, what difference does it make to voters, turnout, and campaigners, and how has it affected the ...
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Was Trump's focus on Clinton's emails beneficial to his 2016 presidential campaign?
As most know, Trump has been making a significant deal out of the Clinton email issue, with a resurgence on the topic occurring recently due to certain comments from the FBI investigator.
Is there ...
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Is door-to-door canvassing common in America?
In the UK, most people can expect to be canvassed at home, in the form of party volunteers knocking on their door and trying to have a conversation with them in order to persuade them to vote for ...
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If I were to lose an election for federal office, what can I do with my leftover campaign money?
Suppose I'm running for some federal-level position in the United States. Along the way, I'm raising campaign funding for all of the usual reasons. Then the election comes, but I lose. I still have ...
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Has a political campaign ever been "suspended", only to go on and later win the election?
As a follow up to Why do primaries contestants (usually) announce that they are "suspending" their campaign when they exit it? - are there examples of politicians initially "suspending" ...
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Can candidates in federal elections draw a living wage from their campaign finances?
In federal elections in the US or in similar governments, is it possible for candidates to feed and house themselves and their families from campaign donations? Or do they need to live off of personal ...
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Has a presidential candidate ever lost his home state and went on to win the presidential election?
I have been watching the new season of House of Cards. At one point,
It got me thinking, has a candidate ever lost his home state and then went on to win his party's primaries and eventually become ...
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Why are big tech companies Bernie Sanders' top donors?
Among Bernie Sanders' top donor there are a lot of big tech companies (most of them based on Silicon Valley, California), namely: Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, IBM, Facebook. This ...
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Preventing fraud by a candidate
What prevents US candidates from misrepresenting or outright lying about themselves?
What laws, regulations, procedures, etc. are in place that address a candidate lying about their own resume/CV and ...
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Is it allowed for president of the USA (or Minister or some other higher level government member) to participate in election campaign?
At the moment the president election campaign in the US is in the full swing. As a foreign national I am a bit surprised that current US president (Obama) seem to actively participate in agitation. ...
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Where does the $77 a week figure come from
Several Democrat congressional candidates are talking about something that has been called the "Minimum Wage Challenge"
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/a-mile-in-shoes-of-the-minimum-...
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How often do politicians pay extras to act the part of cheering crowds?
The Hollywood Reporter (6/17/15) noted that a politician's campaign paid a crowd of extras $50 a head to cheer him during a campaign event.
How often are acting extras employed by politicians in such ...
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Was there an official campaign button printed and circulated with the DeSantis name and the likenesses of both Ron DeSantis and Ronald Reagan?
The lead in to the PBS NewsHour full episode, June 16, 2023 includes
...plus we speak with Miami mayor Francis Suarez about why he's joining the already crowded field of republican presidential ...
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What parts of UK local election campaign literature sway votes?
At the latest local election in England, my school friend ran for office and failed to be elected. Because I've dabbled in marketing, he showed me the leaflet he posted through doors for feedback. I ...
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Is there any European politics study related to the effectiveness of pets usage in political campaigning?
Romania is preparing for the Presidential elections and one of members of a party posted a photo with that of the party president holding a cat (original in Romanian, the following quote was written ...
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What did the 2012 Obama campaign election app ask of its users vs. what did it actually do?
What I mean is, if I downloaded the app:
What information did the app ask of me?
What did the app want me to do?
What did I knowingly agree to, that the app will do?
I don't seem to find a lot of ...
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