dagblog - Comments for "Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle"

conservative money apparently

artappraiser — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 05:27:44 +0000

In reply to Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle

conservative money apparently filling the growing void of local news coverage in the Midwest with faux news websites:

This is a growing problem in Illinois, and many other states- it looks like local news but is paid for by big, and often hidden political interests. https://t.co/fuMKJft7Ry
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) October 21, 2019

I too was disturbed by one

artappraiser — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 20:24:24 +0000

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I too was disturbed by one main point the article is making strongly: polarizing further by getting an emotional reaction out of people by doing extreme right or left memes (i.e., propaganda) is what works. Once emotions are riled, outrage caused, then people further line up as passionate supporters of one or the other, when they may not have been before. We now call it trolling but that's basically also the prescription for war. I.E. yellow journalism, Hearst, "remember the Maine!".... The article is claiming that nuance is detrimental.

I did think about a counterargument to this: what about the 2018 election? Didn't the Dems win partly as a counter-reaction to all the riling of the right and left bases? What about the fact that so many swings swung away from the trolling, not really away from the policy? I'm not sure that I am correct, though.

Where I am 100% comfortable with what is reported in the article: Dems aren't micro-targeting enough! There is nothing here to prove that micro-targeting needs to be inflammatory to work. Maybe just the opposite in many instances. It just has to be smartly done. There is no excuse for not utilizing modern marketing wizardry better. The Obama campaign did in 2008 for what was current at the time.And it was nuance they sold! (just think of what kind of possible inflammatory memes his team was facing just simply as a black man with an Arabic sounding name much less anything else.) No excuse a decade later.

Facebook poliical ads, Fox

NCD — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:12:06 +0000

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Facebook poliical ads, Fox and Trump tweets are where the Republican tribal base gets "the truth". Read their comments at the article.

Our nation's accelerating descent into total Republican dominance, outright lies and corruption, using readily exploitable hate and bigotry, along with lefty delusions and widespread belligerent ignorance that is supported and amplified by social media, will not end we!l.

You mean "adapt to 2004"?

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 12:27:47 +0000

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You mean "adapt to 2004"?