The What if.... Campaign

Opinion 
By Mark T , guest writing for Croglog 
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   The Political Season , has it's conventions and the debates are about to start  we've had this long period of candidates  attacking and promising.   We suffer under the political ads that torture on TV, Radio and internet.  We make the joke that politicians  lie , and that they probably do.
   What if a politician ran a campaign differently ? How ? You may be asking.  Many campaigns are built on promises  , " When ( Very confident) I am elected president i will ....(insert something here)". 3 things usually happen if that person wins , a. they work on the promise, b, they forget about it  c, they try it and it fails.  Most of the time B happens the most.  Let's say I would do it more like this  "When you elect me your President I will work hard on trying to get ... (insert something here) , it may not happen but there's nothing wrong with trying." It's the truth that sometimes a promise by a president can fall short, yet still showing positivity   for something that may not happen.
   Campaigns get dirty . We are used to these attack ads on TV where the deep voice says for example "  This Candidate  caused  the  great tuna disaster when they were  governor of tuna ( this is just an example people)  would you vote for this person because  he caused thousands of people to  be injured by defective cans?" Attacking the other candidate is what always happens , dig up their past  try to relate it to the future. " This Governor caused his state to have  a deficit think what he will do to the country"  That kind of thing , trying to make you think "Hey, if he can't run a state how can he run a country?" Most cases attacks are  the candidate wanting you to like them more than the other person. What they are really saying is " I told my dear mother when I was 8 , I want to be president of the United States. I should be the President"  That would probably be the honest thing to say. Attacking the other candidate is really like other adverting.  " Joe's Fords has more Fords at better prices than Jim's Fords". They both are selling Fords but  Joe's wants you to come to them and makes Jim's not look that good.    Human Emotion is what you play with.  What if , campaign  has not figured out away to get rid of attacks , many candidates have tried to play the positive person , but at many a time they have to go negative.  But a nice way to be negative : "I might like the other candidate they seem very nice , but if they were president they might cause (insert something bad here) ."  See an honest opinion but still kind of negative.
   Endorse me ,would you?   Let's say  there was a candidate let's him  Ed , he's running for President , and for now he's going through a primary in his party,  then there's a former president (ooh lucky) , named John (they don't have last names)  he is well loved by his party and voters in that party. That's great!  So maybe Ed thinks that if he got John's endorsement it would help in his party. It's like a famous person endorsing a credit card ( since when to famous people use credit cards?).  The company thinks "Hey, we  got this big celebrity endorsing our product will have millions getting our high interest card." Many times this works on some people. (Think Oprah endorsed stuff) So let's say Ed and John have a slight difference in a political issue  such as, Ed  thinks that yellow lights on traffic lights should be done away with , just read and green (Merry Christmas) , John thinks that  yellow should stay. Although this difference ( that would be a great hot-button issue)  could affect John giving Ed a much needed endorsement  they find a common  agreement : They both want traffic lights. Unlike the other candidate in the party running against John who thinks traffic lights need to go. ( Maybe he had to many tickets?)   In my what if campaign there's not much I would change on that.

      A campaign interview.  Free elections and free press kind of go together the presidential candidates take to the press to promote themselves.  Many campaigns put their candidate kind of on leash. "Don't say that one thing you say." So many of the interviews can run together ,unless one of the interviewers asks a fancy new question. But something you may not hear, or may not want to hear is a short phrase. "I don't know."  But many times that's the most  honest answer you can give.  "What's the 332 divided by 15?" "Uh.. you know what I am not really sure I can answer that"  ( Instead of saying 7, the answer if you are wondering is 2.13333333) But shouldn't the candidate know ?  Well, yes we would like them to know the answer to everything, they would like to know everything, but sometimes we don't.  Being honest on this leaves them open to attack.  "What would you do about taxes?" " I would lower them for  people who make anything under $55,000 a year"  That's a good answer better than " I don't know" But if you don't know you and said the first answer. My answer could be more : " I don't know i would have do to the math to get it right"  Honest answer, just as long as the math is done, for the next time.
    Stick to it.   "A flip-flopper"  a fun term that has nothing with those shoes that cost like $1 at a dollar store.  Is what goes with an attack on a candidate for example :  A candidate had a position of being one side now is on a different side. Now Humans do have  a right to change on things , many used to like to watch shows about shapes  and we get older we change. On a policy a  candidate may change their for that reason. Many other times  they changed because they felt to adapt to political atmosphere of the time . ( Like bringing coat to wear over a tee-shirt if it gets a bit cooler)  But a candidate should also hold firm not change , but also be flexible and able to change.   Let's say a candidate supports a certain tax but the rest of their party doesn't , that candidate should hold firm on their position. It looks good to people and  it's honest. Let's say a candidate didn't support that yellow light on traffic lights I was talking about earlier  but now they support has changed because they have done research or the yellow light saved their life. They've adapted to change.
  My what if campaign is mostly about what if honesty was used a bit more in campaigns, honesty sometimes hurts but it works it's true (play on words?).
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