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A relative of mine who was rather famous European politician said this to me when I asked him what makes a campaign successful. To succeed in politics you shoul
by MperorM 6y ago
A relative of mine who was rather famous European politician said this to me when I asked him what makes a campaign successful.
To succeed in politics you should have ONE central point, otherwise nobody will remember what you stand for.
had he said there were multiple important things for a successful political campaign, I would not have remembered that conversation.
- cafard 6y agoJohn Alsop, who supposedly popularized the word "egghead", also formulated "Alsop's Law of Politics": In politics it is important to say "most oranges are round, and sound as if you mean it. Alsop managed one of Eisenhower's campaigns in Connecticut: Eisenhower, of course, had the advantage of running against Adlai Stevenson, who was unable to keep from going on to say that actually oranges are not really spherical, that though generally round they are elongated in one direction, then there's the thickened area around the stem etc. (Alsop also said "The eggheads are all for Stevenson, but how many eggheads are there?")