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		<title>Links and Comments 16/11</title>
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http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/political-online-advertising-strategies-near-election-day

A valuable insight about Adwords: target the long-tail: you want to reach voters who are researching issues, voters who are likely to be undecided (example here: &#8220;North Carolina unemployement rate&#8221;)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-maslansky/hope-and-change-20-its-th_b_766839.html?ref=twitter

If you listen to the Tea Party candidates&#8230;actually listen to what  they (as opposed to the media filters) are saying, you start to hear the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicaldot.com/2010/11/16/links-and-comments-1611/</link>
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		<title>So what is political communication after all?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read this interesting paper the other day (available here) about the political communications landscape in Switzerland; besides its actual empirical contribution, what I find intriguing is to classify political communication into three &#8220;fields&#8221;:

political PR
&#8220;campaigning&#8221; of all sorts (election campaigns, institutional campaigns etc.)
lobbying

These three fields can be associated with &#8220;horizontal mediation&#8221; (building trust between different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicaldot.com/2010/11/16/so-what-is-political-communication-after-all/</link>
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		<title>Obama, Change &#8216;08&#8230;and today?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What hasn&#8217;t been said and written about this campaign in the two years that have passed? And yet &#8211; of course, there&#8217;s hope for change..
So, I just came across this video on Youtube:

What&#8217;s really interesting here is what this fine lady says at the beginning of the clip:
The president alone cannot affect the changes that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicaldot.com/2010/11/06/obama-change-08-and-today/</link>
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		<title>Deliberative Democracy&#8230;and the Tea Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was browsing the web, I found yet another small discussion of deliberative democracy; here&#8217;s a small excerpt:
Deliberative democracy stems from the belief that democratic leadership  should involve educating constituents about issues at hand, and that  citizens may significantly alter their opinions when faced with  information about these issues. Advocates of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicaldot.com/2010/10/30/deliberative-democracy-and-the-tea-party/</link>
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		<title>Google, again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must say: whoever&#8217;s in charge of communciations at Google, they&#8217;re doing a good job. Having presented my thoughts on Eric Schmidt&#8217;s public speaking skills a while back, I now had the chance to see Arnauld Mitre of Google France. Asked about transparency issues surrounding Google Search&#8217;s algorithm, he said that they&#8217;re handling it the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicaldot.com/2010/10/27/google-again/</link>
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		<title>Bankrupting America Ad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Admittedly, this is good political advertisement: Stop Digging
What I&#8217;m fascinated by though is the implicit but efficient use of what I consider to be traditional &#8220;American iconography&#8221;: 1. the guy who&#8217;s &#8220;doing the job&#8221; (I think it&#8217;s not too far a stretch to imagine a rifle instead of a shovel&#8230;plus it&#8217;s a motive which I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicaldot.com/2010/10/27/bankrupting-america-ad/</link>
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		<title>Comments 19/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we go:

http://www.faz.net/s/Rub7FC5BF30C45B402F96E964EF8CE790E1/Doc~E400678D137D843899DBE031140F0BD39~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html (German)

Politics is more and more perceived as the simulation of competence and influence. There&#8217;s work to do.

http://e-blogs.wikio.fr/le-blog-comme-outil-politique (French)

Blogs as an opportunity to &#8220;humanize&#8221; politics; I like this: I&#8217;d say you can &#8220;sell&#8221; &#8220;humanity&#8221; in politics both as authenticity/personalization and ethics, so the trick is to combine both of them efficiently.

http://nonprofitprforum.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-tea-party-means-for-communicators.html

But how can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicaldot.com/2010/10/19/comments-1910/</link>
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		<title>Love this gesture &#8211; Cameron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s like he&#8217;s calling on you, getting your willingness to participate. Then it also has this stock-broker business style to it &#8211; it&#8217;s like the ideal participatory yet business-like gesture. Very engaging and dynamic. Good stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6r1jdWkscw
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		<link>http://politicaldot.com/2010/10/18/love-this-gesture-cameron/</link>
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		<title>Political Ads Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My take on the 10 best TV ads of the primaries&#8230;:
1. 5 seconds showing this face &#8211; that&#8217;d do the job:

2. &#8220;I approve this message because&#8230;&#8221; (@ 25secs) &#8211; smart way to integrate that phrase into your ad.
3. Nothing works better than turning a smiling and self-confident politician into&#8230;:



4. Spicy colors!

6. &#8220;&#8230;and I am honored [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicaldot.com/2010/10/08/political-ads-analysis/</link>
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		<title>Politique0 &#8211; Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended 3.5 more conferences on Saturday and Sunday &#8211; here&#8217;s the gist of what I consider to be relevant in terms of political communication:

A lobbyist offered rich insight into his job. Key points: it&#8217;s very important to target just who you&#8217;re trying to influence; influence presupposes confidence;  there are multiple types of lobbying &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicaldot.com/2010/10/04/politique0-part-ii/</link>
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