Analysis on public sentiment, regulatory trends, persuasion, and campaigns.
My father and I have started meeting for breakfast once a week. No agenda, just eggs and chatter. We were chewing the fat about it being busy at work, and he looks at me and asks “What is it that you guys do?” That hit hard – my own father doesn’t know what we do....
Will there ever be a "multi-party" system (i.e. 5-10 parties) or are we stuck here? Short answer, we are stuck – at least for the foreseeable future. There are roughly three types of party government – single parties (China), two party (USA), and multi-party,...
Introduction So begins the 30 day blogging challenge. My thought is to start with an easy one and ease into it. A graduate student asked me what book I read this year that I would recommend to practitioners of political affairs. Seeing that I have seeming spent a...
Overview For the most part, voters in Alachua County performed about as one would expect. Of all campaigns that were partisan and county wide, Democrats averaged 58% and Republicans averaged 42% of the vote. This is in-line with historic returns going back to 1996....
We spent time in part 1, part2 , and part3 in this series speaking about the difficulty in changing minds once formed. We also spent some time talking about the 'deep work' needed and how to change to change minds. We have seen just how difficult it is to change minds...
We have finally arrived at part 3 of 3 on the topic of "How to Change Minds Using Digital Media? Persuasion." In Part 1 - we explored the formation of beliefs, values, and opinions. In Part 2 - we explored the forces at work that attempt to sustain beliefs - both...
In Part 1 HOW TO CHANGE MINDS USING DIGITAL MEDIA? FORMATION OF BELIEFS, VALUES AND ATTITUDES, we explored the formation of beliefs, values, attitudes, and identities. We understand that after people form political identities (or any for that matter), they are...
This begins a three-part blog post exploring how to use digital media to change minds in a political context. I have spent nearly a professional lifetime trying to understand how people make political decisions and how to affect that process. Even that topic gets...
"How does one change someone's mind?" As in the past, some of the best blog topics come from friends via email. This question, "How does one change someone's mind?" was asked in the context of the current COVID debate. However, it spurred a much longer, deeper...
