A blog written by Manchester College students studying the 2008 presidential campaign.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Political Consultants

Each candidate in the campaign has their own political consultants. They need to have one because they often don't have time to do everything themselves, due to being very busy with dealing with the issues and everything else. Each political consultant has their own jobs as writers, speech coaches, direct mail specialists, and specialists in television commercial production and placement.

The consultants jobs as writers are to basically to handle all of the advertising chores of the campaign. This allows the candidate not to have to worry about what commercials go where and how it should be played out during the campaign. Speech coaches are simply there to help with public speaking and debating, if needed. Some candidates come in to a campaign needing a lot of work on their "speaking" abilities. People who work with the direct mail are simply there to make sure it gets out to the right people, it says the right type of things to help the candidate, and also to make sure everything is going smoothly on the outside.

Everyone has a really important role in the campaigning process, and the candidate is really lucky to have these people with them to help them. OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!!!

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