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Repositioning
Political Candidates
All politics is perception, posturing, and positioning.
Political spin doctors are becoming positioning mavens.
They have to, or they won’t survive. Given the endless polling
that goes on in politics, no other business spends as much
money and time crawling around in people’s minds.
All this really began to intensify in the late ’80s. In fact,
the 1988 Bush/Dukakis battle may have been the first presi-
dential election to be decided by the power of the nominee’s
advertising. But it sure won’t be the last.
Anthony Lewis, a columnist for The New York Times, said,
“It was ungenerous of Mr. Bush in his victory speech to ...