Why Presidential Campaigns Ought To Take Our Interview Advice
With the presidential candidates campaigning in full force now, I’m becoming more and more irritated by the bitchy negative tone of their campaigns. Darlene has pointed out before that the campaign and election process is our interview of the potential candidates. Then why do we condone all this negativity?
In a job interview, speakng negatively about your previous boss or God forbid, other candidates (if you happen to know them) will probably guarantee you don’t get called for a second interview. Yet, in the political campaign process, this negativity is well accepted and even expected from the candidates. People rarely raise an eyebrow at the negative ad campaigns and venomous, mean sprited speeches that attack the character of opponents. I don’t care how widely accepted it is, I consider candidates who use these tactics bad news just like I do job applicants who do it.
Here are my top reasons why political candidates should follow the same rules as regular ole job applicants like us.
- Focusing all efforts on attacking the other party could be a predictor of a candidate who seeks out and embraces conflict.
- A negative ad campaign strikes me as a smoke screen for a candidate who has nothing of substance to say.
- It breaks my mother’s basic rule of “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” which is a particulary important rule for a President and Vice President.
- It’s mean.
- It fosters a negative culture within the party and society at-large and gives people nothing to talk about the next day around the water cooler except negative attacking stuff.
McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden - please read our Coach’s Corner blog posts. I think you need it.
What do you think about negative political campaigns? Do you think they are productive, or counter-productive for (a.) the votes and (b.) the morale and spirit of the country?
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POSTED IN: 2008 Elections
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