Can a political party campaign too much?

[highwaystar101]

KingFate said:

highwaystar101 said:

badgenome said:
Yes, and since I keep hearing how political parties in the UK are trying to adapt Obama's campaign strategy, I expect you're going to find out just what too much campaigning really is.

*Urgh* Tell me about it... And I hate the way that David Cameron has adopted Obama's slogan of "Change". Seriously, he says that word every ten fucking seconds when he's talking.

Well "slogans" like that make the average person SWOON over them. The people who think outside of political parties(aka not mindless zealots) are usually disgusted by empty talk like that as they SHOULD be. If they are copying Obama's campaign get ready for some REALLY REALLY annoying crap.

Obama's slogan was *kind of* justified, at the time the USA needed a change in their politics, whether the change that was needed has been delivered is another topic.

But UK politicians (and I imagine nearly all politicians around the world) have copied Obama's extremely successful campaign, and the cheap copycat gimmicks just don't have the same effect, they're just annoying.