Bandwagoning, glittering generalities, name calling, and stacked cards are the best political propaganda strategies to use when running for President of the United States because in today’s society, American citizens are commonly influenced by advertisements that allow a candidate to appear superior to the other. There are seven different types of propaganda: endorsement, glittering generalities, bandwagon, stacked cards, name calling, plain folks, and image molding. Propaganda is bias advertisement used to persuade the reader. Many candidates use propaganda to gain the support of citizens for any upcoming election. The goal of using political propaganda is to win an election. Walter Mondale used bandwagoning, which is convincing people to support a candidate because other people do, to show the supporters that he already had in attempt to gain new ones. His campaign manufactured buttons with sayings, such as “retirees support”, “united paperworkers for Mondale”, and “Asian …show more content…
(Document D) Bush states that America cannot afford the risk of making Michael Dukakis the Commander-In-Chief and then lists out multiple opinions that Dukakis had made that Bush disagreed with. Bush tried to convince American citizens that Dukakis could not be trusted by mentioning that he criticized the United States’ rescue mission to Grenada. It did not help his campaign, however, name calling can be an effective strategy to use in elections. Clinton suggested that Bush was a liar when he increased the taxes after promising that he would not enforce any new taxes. Clinton quotes Bush when he said, “Read my lips- no taxes,” and then claimed that Bush passed the second largest tax increase in American history. For Clinton, name calling was effective because he won the