The Democratic Primary

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The Democratic Primary




ABSTRACT
With the election of President of the United States approaching there are many people vying for the opportunity to be on the ballot. There are nine contenders for the Democratic Party attempting to gain their parties favor for this honor. I will show the different tactics and strategies of the contenders for this primary election. They will coerce you and attempt to gain your support by every know tactic and play many psychological games with the public in order to gather support. I will break down the popular contenders and show their game plan.















The Democratic Primary

The election of 2004 is rapidly approaching and the Democratic Party is gathering their best for the race. There are nine candidates that are vying for the party’s endorsement. The democratic primary is going to be a hard fought battle and all the stops are being pulled in order to influence the voters. The candidates are using every trick in their arsenal to obtain votes. Each candidate with the exception of Dennis Kucinich has a campaign song. The songs are even used to sway the attitude of the voters, from Kerry’s “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty to Gephardt’s “The Best” by Tina Turner. (WWW.MSNBC.COM) This campaign is coming down to a psychological battle with every candidate using all their abilities to sway the vote.
John Kerry is using the fact that he was a Viet Nam veteran to his full advantage. In the Detroit debate when Lieberman questioned him about voting against the $87 billion appropriation for Iraq he answered “ Well, Joe, I have seared in me an experience which you don’t have, and that’s the experience of being one of those troops on the front lines when the policy has gone wrong.” He went on to explain why his vote was a better way to protect the troops, but what made ...