Local is National: Lessons from the Campaign
The following was my panel pitch for the 2013
During the course of previous election cycles, it is easy to observe how the ideas and the beliefs of the candidates at the national and regional levels get boiled down to sound bites and talking points. As a casual political observer, I want to see if I could help with a local political campaign (a mayor’s race in Zanesville, OH in 2011) and help communicate what are candidate’s beliefs and the ideas he had without being watered down or simplified to the lowest level through the use of new media techniques.
This panel will discuss the lessons that were learned during this campaign and what others can take away from the political process.
- How can you find a balance between different audiences with respect to the dissemination of a political platform?
- What lessons can national and regional political campaigns learn from local campaigns?
- Why should campaigns focus on newer media platforms in the designing of their campaigns?