Election Campaigning: Manifesto, Opposition Research, Negative Campaigning, Campaign Advertising, Grassroots Campaigns, Inc., Canvassing

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Manifesto, Opposition research, Negative campaigning, Campaign advertising, Grassroots Campaigns, Inc., Canvassing, Campaign song, The She Spot, Whitaker and Baxter, Get out the vote, Leaders debate, Community politics, National Republican Trust Political Action Group, Campaign button, Hispanic Democratic Organization, Campaign management tools, We Have a Right, Defense of Democracies, Election silence, New York City Campaign Finance Board, Eight Magic Words, Coffin Handbills, Campaign bus, The Opposition Research Group, Shuttleworth, Baby kissing, PIG, Government platform. Excerpt: Opposition research (often referred to as oppo) is: Opposition research differs immensely depending on the size and funding of a campaign, the ethics of the candidate, and the era in which it is conducted. Information gathering can be classified into three main categories: open-source research enabled by the Freedom of Information Act, covert operations or tradecraft, and maintenance of human systems of informants. Increasingly, data-mining of electronic records is used. Information is then stored for future use, and disseminated in a variety of ways. A local election sometimes has a staff member dedicated to reading through all of the opponents' public statements and their voting records; others initiate whisper campaigns that employ techniques of disinformation or black ops to deliberately mislead the public by advancing a pre-determined narrative that will present the opponent in a negative light. Another technique is to infiltrate the opposition's operations and position a paid informant there. Gray propaganda techniques are often used to release damaging information to news media outlets without its source being identified properly, a technique inherited from disinformation tactics employed by intelligence agencies such as ...