The Art of Political Campaign Messaging that Demands Perfection

The power of political slogans and campaign messages is often underrated in most elections. The incorporation of the emotional touch in campaign messages has made some political campaigns stand out from others.

Political Campaign Messaging: How Does it Work?

Whether it is Obama’s “Yes, We Can,” Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again,” or the Brexit slogan of “Take Back Control,” every campaign message has the commonality of hitting the general audience’s minds.

Through the slogan “Yes, We Can,” the former US President reinforced that something is missing in America that needs to be improved with urgency.

Similarly, Donald Trump, through his slogan, reiterated the concept that America used to be great, and he is here to regain the lost glory. People connected with him and voted for him in big numbers.

The same goes for Brexit’s slogan, where anti-EU elements built a campaign claiming that they lost control over their land, and it was time to get it back, resulting in a successful referendum.

Political campaign messaging is a way through which you attract voters toward your campaign, who will ultimately come out for you on the election day.

As a politician, you would need political messaging that could resonate with your voters for maximum conversions.

Not every voter weighs the pros and cons of a candidate before making a final decision. Not everyone is an ideological voter, willing to burn the midnight oil in studying a candidate’s manifesto.

This is where the power of motions comes in, which you have to build through campaign messages and political slogans.

Political slogans are essentially taglines containing as few words as possible. However, the campaign message is a bit longer, hitting various aspects of a political campaign.

How to Craft Campaign Messaging

Studying Voters’ Demographics

Crafting a campaign message should not be a casual task. It needs rigorous research and incorporation of attractive wording that can only be perfected by digging deep.

First of all, you have to study your demographics in this regard. What kind of voters are you trying to impress the most?

While your voters could be segregated into various age groups, you need to study them in order to make an imaginary sketch of your ideal targeted voter.

Learn Voters’ Areas of Concerns

Once you have visualized your ideal voter, it’s time to get to know their matters of interest and priorities.

Your campaign message should incorporate the crux of this research, so turn to quality researches for this purpose.

One of the ways to gather authentic data is to conduct political surveys that could help you in hitting the bull’s eye in no time.

Be the Problem-Solver, not an Advertiser

Believe it or not,  your voters do not care about your campaign if you do not show interest in solving their problems.

Voters see politicians as problem-solvers, so any campaign message that you are going to create must address the way you would solve voters’ problems.

Remember, you can only reach a solution if you have done the research about the issues correctly.

Opposition Research

Your voters always have multiple choices in front of them. Never forget that your rival candidate will be pitching to the same set of voters.

So, it becomes a head-to-head contest, where you do not only have to persuade voters in your favor but also convince them not to vote in your oppositions’ favor.

This brings us to opposition research, which becomes a vital strategy in crafting a successful political campaign message.

Ask yourself some important questions before writing even a word of your campaign message including,

• What are the blunders your opposition candidate made in the past, which you can cash in on?
• What are your opposition’s strong areas? Knowing this will help you in becoming proactive in accessing your rivals’ campaign messages.
• Explore your candidates’ weaknesses, so you can find potential opportunities to pitch yourself against them.

Final Thoughts

Political slogans and campaign messages are different texts, so you must not intermix both of them.

Any message takes a reasonable amount of time to sink into the audience’s mind. So try not to rush to see the result.

Also, always ensure that whenever you are running for reelection, you must reuse the same message that you used in the first campaign to retain the emotionally bonded people.

There is an unconscious way to reinforce the same message on your audience. For instance, whenever you upload content on Facebook to strengthen your Facebook political strategy, you can copy and paste the same message and slogan at the bottom corner of the content.

The same is true for Instagram and other social media platforms as well. This way, you attain maximum outreach and hence, the votes.