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Lesson 4: Focus Message on Their Future It’s About the Voters; Not About You

Successful incumbent governors had a common formula for communicating with voters: proven results plus a plan for the future that conveyed an understanding of their constituents’ daily lives. Their messages were about energetically getting results for people. “People want to know what your issues are, people want to know what [...]

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Lesson 3: Seize the “Populist” Presumption Independent Reformer

Words like “bipartisan,” “independent” and “strong” came up often when interviewees spoke about incumbent women governors. According to several campaign pollsters, voters also perceived women incumbents as “outsiders” or “agents of change” and they identified their own woman governor as someone who was fighting for them. Voters perceived today’s women [...]

Methodology

Media Between August 15, 2008 and November 30, 2008 we collected and reviewed news articles from the largest daily newspapers in each contested state, followed and collected liberal and conservative blog postings and website activity for the campaigns and their opponents. During that same period we reviewed and selected TV [...]