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    Political campaigning is now the full-fledged live version of chess, with pawns, queens and kings, but is all this parading and strategizing actually important? What is even the purpose behind political campaigns; is it to inform the public about a candidate or through clever means to win an election at all costs? The truth of the matter is that campaigns do actually serve an important purpose in the political world of America. Its purpose is to help inform voters about candidates and to improve

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    insignificant attention by not prioritizing Tana River District in their community empowerment and development agendas – the dark days of the single-party dictatorship. More so, the aspects of poor leadership from some of the previous government and political officials, who behaved in a servile manner, and the unwarranted internal ethnic acrimonies have endorsed the current contemptible state of the County. Consequently, the County is marred by poor infrastructure, dilapidated and non-existence (in some

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    seen 44 presidents, many of whom have served multiple terms in office. Each of these presidential hopefuls has employed a marketing campaign to earn the support of voters across the country, and the strategies used have given politics an infamous reputation. From their humble beginnings during the George Washington era to their infamy in modern elections, political advertisements have undergone extensive changes. Although advertisements were originally positive messages intended to gather support

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    is, no doubt, important part of our Democratic society, but it is a point where it has become the only thing that matters to some of the politicians. Can we blame them though? Politicians spend countless hours trying to gather donations for their campaigns, as I listened to the podcast in "Take the money and run for office". It started off with a politician asking for money. It brings up the question why must they constantly ask for money in the first place. If you think about it, it becomes clear

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    elections. This documentary mainly focuses on 501c4s, which are groups meant to focus on issues rather than specific campaigns. However, the documentary shows that this is in fact not the case, and that certain 501c4s have been heavily involved in specific campaigns, even going so far as to collaborate with people involved in these campaigns. Traditionally, Montana is very strict on campaign finance laws, and because of this Montana challenged the Supreme Court’s decision to allow these 501c4s to spend

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    corruption and to implement long term sustainable policy. However, successful public policy is typically achieved through a slow process of gradual change. The policy that would be the most successful and would help to create a more fair and equal political playground would be to reduce how much people and corporations could spend by linking public financing and spending limits. By creating clean elections one can help to equalize resources between the candidates by making sure all of the candidates

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    People and Political Participation: Teen Players) she notes that “social media are a critical new space for political discourse and engagement, which political institutions cannot afford to neglect” as the younger audiences use social media, and the people they follow as a guide it seemed vital that modern day politics has to infiltrate social media formats. This can be utilised by politicians and their agenda to widen the scope of their message. In the Praeger Handbook of Political Campaigning

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    The Campaign directed by Jay Roach uses these main literary devices, irony, allusion, hyperbole, conflict, and satire to exemplify the absurdity, greed, and fraudulence that takes place during a campaign for public office. This satire is about an egotistical and corrupt North Carolina congressman named Cam Brady, who is running for his 5th term unopposed. Until two corrupt billionaire brothers convince a dimwitted and naive local tourist director, Marty Huggins, to run against Cam Brady in the upcoming

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    important and influential factor in the election process. The media depends upon the campaigns for both news and revenues. The candidates then rely upon the media to get in touch with the largest number of voters possible.           The Media has a “ very powerful and justifiable role” (Fullerton-1) to play in presidential elections and can actually dictate a campaign agenda. “It is the media’s job to sort of be the watchdog (Fullerton-1).” Their job

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    The permanent campaign is literally what the title means, campaigns have turned into a non-stop barrage to voters about every aspect, view and even private lives of the future candidates. Over the years the difference between Governing and campaigning and merge into a constant push for votes in the next election cycle. There are many reasons why this has come to be, but there are a few in particular that I feel have a driving force. First is the drastic increase in media coverage. Before you would

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