Posts Tagged ‘branding’

Winning Back the Youth Vote: Is a “Hip-Hop” Makeover Part of the Answer?

Hats off to Future Majority, one of our counterparts on the other side of the aisle, for bringing my attention to this story.
In a Washington Times interview, newly elected RNC Chairman Michael Steele discussed his plan for winning back the youth vote, arguing that Republicans must apply their principles to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”  According to [...]

Obama for President Wasn’t a Campaign, It Was a Business

The political blogosphere is buzzing about Obama campaign manager David Plouffe’s interview. Soren Dayton argues the lessons of the Obama campaign were “budgeting, technology, field, and media,” while Patrick Ruffini finds that the important lesson is that “Obama ran a better kind of offline campaign.” Although it is quite true that these are some critical [...]

Mr. Blackwell, College Republicans Aren’t Enough.

Ken Blackwell, in his letter to RNC members announcing his candidacy for chairman, suggests the following as a solution to the Republican Party’s woes among young voters:
Expend an unprecedented amount of RNC funding to build vibrant College Republican chapters on every major university campus in the nation and use those chapters as a base to [...]

Four Ways to Reposition a Dying Republican Brand

If the Republican Party wants to win in 2010 and beyond, the bottom line is that it will have to reposition its brand. The latest from Real Clear Politics, reporting on a recent Gallup poll, confirms this (emphasis added):
The Republican Party’s image has gone from bad to worse over the past month, as only 34% [...]

Winning Back the Youth Vote (Part 2)

We simply cannot afford to lose a generation of young voters to the Democrats.  As a follow-up to my first post from a few days back, I’d like to propose some specific changes that would better serve the Republican Party in recapturing the youth vote.
Establish a Young Voter Outreach arm of the Republican National Committee
We [...]