naruball on 16 November 2016
| Miguel_Zorro said: Trump will be the oldest first term president ever elected at age 70. Sanders will be 79 when the next election rolls around. He'll likely be too old to run, but who knows. 1. Pick an exciting candidate. Somebody who believes in what they're saying and comes across that way. 2. Run on actual issues. The "I'm With Her" slogan implied that we should vote for the candidate simply because she's a woman. The campaign kept coming back to that. If you run a campaign as a personality contest, the person with the bigger personality will win every time - Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama, Trump. Like them or hate them, the more charismatic candidate always won. If you're not the most charismatic, you need to run a different kind of campaign. 3. Campaign hard for reform. Make getting big money out of politics a major platform blank. Make reforming the electoral college another. Be careful with the second item, because the swing states currently have disproportionate clout and they won't want to lose that. 4. Talk about ideas, every day. Talk about what you're actually going to do. Be specific. |
Trump was neither charismatic nor specific. He was the furthest thing from specific. But overall I agree with your points.
