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Instead, the push poll is a form of telemarketing-based propaganda and rumor-mongering masquerading as an opinion poll. Push polls may rely on innuendo, or information gleaned from opposition research on the political opponent of the interests behind the poll. Generally, push polls are viewed as a form of negative campaigning. [1]
In contexts of the efforts of candidates, party activities and ballot measure campaigns, "get-out-the-vote" or "GOTV" is an adjective indicating having the effect of increasing the number of the campaign's supporters who will vote in the immediately approaching election. Typically GOTV is a distinct phase of the overall campaign.
A how-to-vote card from the 2015 Canning by-election, produced by the Australian Greens. In Australia, how-to-vote cards (HTV) are small leaflets that are handed out by party supporters during elections. Voting in the Australian lower house uses a preferential voting system. Voters must rank every candidate on the ballot in order for their vote ...
More than 200 organizations sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., urging him to schedule a vote on the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) in January.
Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan; Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans; Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin; popularized in the United States following 2014 protests in ...
An informational campaign is a political campaign designed to raise public awareness and support for the positions of a candidate (or her/his party). [24] It is more intense than a paper campaign, which consists of little more than filing the necessary papers to get on the ballot, but is less intense than a competitive campaign, which aims to ...
In political campaigns, an attack ad is an advertisement designed to wage a personal attack against an opposing candidate or political party in order to gain support for the attacking candidate and attract voters.
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