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In reply to the discussion: What's wrong with our 'messaging'? [View all]Scrivener7
(50,941 posts)she managed to persuade them to vote Democratic. And she did it in an astonishingly short time period. Let's ask her! Better yet, make her the head of the DNC and give her a good budget.
There are many very talented PR firms out there. Let's hire one of those! I am guessing they could put together a better PR blitz for landmark legislation than press conferences and an image projected on a building in Baltimore.
And finally, the right wing message machine does not hide their methods. They have shown us how to do it. They have given us a road map. We don't have to copy their messages, but their mechanics are very much worth copying. We see every day how effective they are. Think tanks that develop psychologically effective messaging, using that psychologically effective messaging in response to each news item, consistent framing of our accomplishments, deep research into how to use social media to target individual voters on the basis of their individual needs.
There are about a thousand things we could be doing that we are not.