How did the difference in Republican and Democrat campaign strategies and public messaging affect the 2016 presidential election?

2017-01-06T15:40:28-05:00

The most significant corollary to this question is. How did President elect Trumps use of social media blow the democrats out of the water by totally overriding the traditional Friday to Monday news gap?
The average person...especially during the excitement of this campaign..spent huge amounts of available weekend and evening time interacting in political discussions. The social media offered a forum in which the most far out discussions and nasty rhetoric could take place without fear of immediate reprisal as might occur in face to face social interactions..
People were able to sit around in their "safe space" (haha) and say whatever the F*** went through their minds..wether they were half baked or stoned stupid..." In vino veritas" is still applicable to all.

Response by 1stSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 6 at 2017 3:43 PM

2017-01-06T15:43:09-05:00

In what aspect? Question is kind of vague.

Response by CPT Jack Durish made Jan 6 at 2017 3:43 PM

2017-01-06T15:43:22-05:00

Nothing really. Getting elected and staying elected seems to be the prime motivations for all politicians. It'll be interesting to see how that changes if term limits are imposed on all elected offices. We'll have to drag people kicking and screaming into the various elected offices - much like jury duty - once the enticement of great wealth through peddling influence is taken off the board.

Response by SSG Trevor S. made Jan 6 at 2017 3:46 PM

2017-01-06T15:46:23-05:00

Are asking about the voters or the politicians of each party? Sometimes the aims of each are vastly different.

Response by PO3 John Wagner made Jan 6 at 2017 3:56 PM

2017-01-06T15:56:33-05:00

I as a common citizen only see the public side of it. I am not a scholar of the topic.
In the past year I have seen a continual blame game however, the Democratic Party focused it's efforts unproductively.. Most of their rhetoric was fuzzy and unfocused, their candidate changing like the breeze at each campaign stop. Much time and energy was wasted looking for ways to discredit and demonize the Republican Candidate.
The republican candidate however, would stay on a reasonably focused message to each crowd, seemingly not pandering or patterning his message.
As a man who never ran for political office, but an individual with extreme business acumen, he was able to deliver a consistent message. Any successful corporate leader must be able to do so. His consistent message, solidly rammed home by the use of social media...a strategy his opponents criticized and realized far too late was the greatest tool for a political coupe ever wielded.
The republicans also had eight years of dismal policy and its failure with which to hammer the democrats relentlessly. The public media virally planted that consistent message.
It seems in retrospect to have been a doomed campaign for the Democrats. They had absolutely nothing to point to indicating real success and a track record of divisiveness no long disguisable by message variation to various constituencies.
Mr Trump,also caved in the skull of the standard media program by utilizing messaging which stood alone outside the standard Friday to Monday broadcast media dead zone.

Response by PO3 Derek "Doc Potter" Wilson made Jan 6 at 2017 5:40 PM

2017-01-06T17:40:50-05:00

Democrats want to control your money, and Republicans want to control your beliefs.

Response by MSgt James Mullis made Jan 6 at 2017 5:42 PM

2017-01-06T17:42:56-05:00

I think this quote from another "common citizen" applies.

"All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems -- problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best. -- Mark Twain

Response by CSM William DeWolf made Jan 6 at 2017 7:39 PM

2017-01-06T19:39:37-05:00

PE Trump did not have a "traditional" ground game as many politicians stated. He went where others did not and talked what the people wanted to hear and in the language they understood. NO BS, no political rhetoric.