In my experience as Political Consultant, I have been very clear that most of the candidates and their campaign teams always talk about the strategy, but few really understand what an electoral strategy that serves to win an election.
addition, often the assumptions strategists say they can not show the strategy because they have it in the brain and not write back because they fear could fall into the hands of their opponents. And then, I wonder if the strategy is so secret that how they make that campaign teams know what they happen to do to win the election. But
whenever I talk with the candidates and their strategists what they consider their strategy, I find myself regularly what they are suggesting is not a strategy, but a series of ideas and occurrences, often without logic, which they believe can win the election .
why I always insist that, before starting a campaign, and even before you start designing, you need to know what it is an electoral strategy to win elections.
I argue that an electoral strategy to win is one that responds objectively and adequately with these three questions:
1. What are the messages (proposals) that can help us convince the majority of voters to vote for us?
2. What are the media that will help us to convey our message to the majority?, And
3. How much money do we need to efficiently transmit that message?
From my point of view, therefore, the strategy is a document that indicates very precisely what we will say to convince voters to vote for our candidate. This is after we have done an adequate investigation, it showed us the concerns of voters and the solutions they would be willing to support with their vote.
should also say what are the appropriate means to convey the message. If we are to use TV, radio, newspapers, leaflets, direct mail, call centers, email, networks of supporters, and so on.
But it must also contain a well defined budget to tell us how much it will cost us the effort of organization and communication, where and when will the money.
Something that does not contain the answers to these questions can be called as we like, but it can never be said to be a strategy to win an election.