(Mike) Murphy responded as most consultants do: “People say that they don’t like negative ads, but negative information is an important part of their decision-making. It works. Campaigns are a ‘whatever works’ kind of world.
Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
“Mudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time” – Kerwin Swint
May 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Campaigning, Electoralism, Means and Ends, Uncategorized
Tags:Advertising·Campaigning·Electoralism·means and ends·negative campaigning·Politics·us politics·whatever it takes
“Mudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time” – Kerwin Swint
April 30th, 2012 · No Comments · Campaigning, Uncategorized
To Jesse Helms, politics and ideology were simple, black and white. He saw it as right versus wrong, good versus evil. His slogan for the 1972 Senate campaign was “He’s one of us.” It appeared in television ads and in flyers distributed around the state…. It also implied that the opponent was not “one of [...]
Tags:Advertising·Campaigning·multiculturalism·Politics·racism·us politics
“Mudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time” – Kerwin Swint
April 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Campaigning, Nuclear Weapons, Uncategorized
The ‘Daisy Girl’ spot was intended to play on the fears and anxieties about Goldwater that he himself had created. The ad opens with a young girl sitting in a field of flowers, picking daisies as she counts them…. At zero, the camera zooms in to the girl’s eyes and we see a nuclear explosion, [...]
Tags:Campaigning·Cold War·Nuclear Weapons·Politics·us politics
“Mudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time” – Kerwin Swint
April 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Campaigning, Uncategorized
In 1934 (Upton Sinclair) abandoned the Socialist Party and then entered the Democratic Party Primary for governor. He reasoned that a Socialist could not get elected; he had to win an election before he could enact a single policy. He based his campaign on a utopian novel he had just written, called, I, Governor of [...]
“Berlin: The Downfall 1945” – Antony Beevor
April 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Communism, Uncategorized, WW2
The proportion of political arrests in the Red Army doubled from 1944 to 1945, a year when the Soviet Union was effectively at war for little more than four months. In that year of victory, no fewer than 135,056 Red Army soldiers and officers were condemned by military tribunals for ‘counter-revolutionary crimes’…. Over 1.5 million [...]
Tags:communism·Political Crimes·WW2
“Berlin: The Downfall 1945” – Antony Beevor
April 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Communism, Uncategorized, WW2
Perhaps as a side-effect of this law linking death with sexual maturity, the arrival of the enemy at the edge of the city made young soldiers desperate to lose their virginity. Girls, well aware of the high risk of rape, preferred to give themselves to almost any German boy first than to a drunken and [...]
Tags:communism·war crimes·WW2
“The Fall of Berlin 1945” – Antony Beevor
April 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Communism, Uncategorized, WW2
As the allied armies approached the hear of Germany from both directions, Berliners claimed that optimists were ‘learning English and pessimists learning Russian’.
“The Fall of Berlin 1945” – Antony Beevor
April 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Communism, Uncategorized, WW2
Then Roosevelt announced without warning that United States forces would not remain in Europe for more than two years after Germany’s surrender. Churchill was privately appalled.
“Berlin: The Downfall 1945” – Antony Beevor
April 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Communism, Uncategorized, WW2
Significantly, there has been little acknowledgement by Russian historians that if it had not been for American Lend-Lease trucks, the Red Army’s advance would have taken far longer and the Western Allies might well have reached Berlin first.
“Berlin: The Downfall 1945” – Antony Beevor
April 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Communism, Uncategorized, WW2
Red Army soldiers were astonished to see wirelesses in so many houses. The evidence of their eyes strongly implied that the Soviet Union was perhaps not quite the workers’ and peasants’ paradise they had been told. East Prussian farms produced a mixture of bewilderment, jealousy, admiration and anger which alarmed political officers.
