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Fox News Gigs May Be Keeping Four GOP Presidential Candidates From Officially Running
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, blogging, Body Language, Communications, Crisis Communications, Government & Politics, Video, Voice on January 3, 2011
Ron Paul is 50-50 Running for President
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, Government & Politics, media relations, Politics on December 13, 2010
What is the significance for the other candidates in the Republican Party? Paul has a very specific message and is a hero to libertarians in the party. He should get 4-10% in very primary he enters (but no more) and he won’t need to raise tons of money either. This further crowds the field: Palin, Huckabee, Romney, Gingrich and now Paul. With all of them capable of getting 10, 20 or even more percent of the votes, it’s extremely difficult to see how a fresh face like a Pawlenty can sneak through all five and win. If Paul enters, he further constricts the window for new messages to get through. It looks like it’s going to be a fun and exciting election year in 2012.
A new Quinnipiac University shows Romney and Huckabee in dead heat with Obama, Palin would lose by 8
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, Government & Politics, Media, News, Politics on November 22, 2010
So what does this mean? Not much, since the election is nearly 2 years out. This time four years ago Rudy Giuliani was way ahead of everyone in all the polls; that didn’t turn out so well for anyone.
The real message here is that the country has 10% unemployment and if you really add all the numbers together it’s more like 20%. Anyone who is president when 20% of the country is unemployed is going to be wildly unpopular and will be seen losing to potential contenders.
The GOP Sound Bite King
Posted by TJ Walker in Government & Politics, Humor, Media Training, Politics, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, Social Speaking, Uncategorized on November 20, 2008
The following is from the Daily Beast. If you are looking for an example of someone who can consistently frame every single thought into a perfect sound bite, then look no further that Mike Huckabee.Â
Mike Huckabee is saying what a lot of people are thinking about the danger of Obama tangling with the Clintons. “If he’s floating that balloon it better fly, because I think that to float the idea, and then to pull it away, I just think it would be disastrous for him from a public relations standpoint,†the former Arkansas governor told The New Yorker’s Lauren Collins. “It would be twice having rung the doorbell and not taken her to the dance.†The Obama camp is playing with fire, he suggests. “Surely they did know that she was married, and that her husband is named Bill, and that he used to be President. It wasn’t like they woke up and said, ‘Oh my, you know, I forgot all about him.’ You don’t open the door when you’re pretty sure there’s fire on the other side of it that’s going to come in and scorch the room.†Hot stuff.
Public Speaking Skills Come in 1st and 2nd in Iowa Caucus
Posted by TJ Walker in Politics, Public Speaking Skills on January 4, 2008
Modern politics is supposed to be about big money, polling, backroom deals, and internet sophistication. Of course all of these elements have a role in campaigns. But the Iowa Caucuses were striking in that both the Republican and Democratic voters picked the two best public speakers for the two top slots to represent their parties.
In modern politics, this is unusual. John Kerry really wasn’t a great communicator. Bob Dole, not that great. And of course there is the strange case of George W. Bush receiving the Republican Nomination—twice.
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