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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFive Challenges The Republican Party Will Face If It Wants To Rebrand Through Pop Culture
ThinkProgress1. Republican celebrities are less appealing than Democratic celebrities:
2. Self-deprecation is a difficult skill to instill in politics: The report says that Republican leaders should participate in and actively prepare for interviews with The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, MTV and magazines such as People, UsWeekly, etc., as well as radio stations that are popular with the youth demographic.
3. Matching television spots to the most popular television content isnt easy: The report notes that On television, Obama ran at least four separate media schedules, each with a different series of creative executions. Pollsters, ad producers, and media buyers working together can determine the right mix of creative executions and media weight. The ambition to run different ads for different settings is a good idea, of course, but that means youve got to have arguments, first, and find content where it might be a good fit. Its one thing to roll out a traditional message about, say, opposition to gun control during Duck Dynasty, but whats the pitch during NCIS, a show thats succeeded in part by being somewhat politically neutral? Or how about 2 Broke Girlsare you going to pitch self-reliance for people in debt at the same time party leaders are attacking federal student loans? Are you going to be able to make fun of yourself, rather than simply trying to mock Democrats, given that self-referentiality and self-deprecation are often valuable tones in advertising, particularly to younger viewers?
4. The voters the Republican party most wants to attract arent watching as much television:
5. Cool is organic, rather than something you can manufacture:
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Five Challenges The Republican Party Will Face If It Wants To Rebrand Through Pop Culture (Original Post)
LiberalFighter
Mar 2013
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RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)1. Cool is organic
Obama is cool.
The republicans are fire breathing dragons. If it wasn't for all the hate filled old farts the pubs would be ... well let's just say they are the modern day dinosaurs.
Goodbye, asshole dinosaurs. We are gonna bury you. And piss on your graves.
longship
(40,416 posts)2. 1. Nobody really likes Pat Boone or Lawrence Welk. nt