Thursday, October 3, 2013

MARKETING’S ROLE IN THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN


In the electoral campaign, what is more important we may ask the program or the image? U.S electoral campaigns have become a great example of how to use marketing tools in order to highlight the image of a politician over his message.

I will focus in Barack Obama’s campaign in which marketing created a logo: an “O”



Personally, this logo selected for the campaign instills me a sense of simplicity and transparency. We can see in the image a sun rising which metaphorically talking can mean a new beginning. This probably helped Obama in his campaign to convince citizens that with his win, new things would come up.
In addition, with his promotion of “Yes, we can”, Obama would transmit optimism and the citizens will of participating in his project. He would also talk directly for the youngest to encourage them into participating in the campaign and convincing them that a new time was coming. It has been a great distribution of Obama’s ideas.

Regarding to the money, to create the brand “Obama” with little contributions there was a cost of 600$ millions. This would have been very criticized if the money would come from financial federal.

In conclusion, OBAMA=MARKETING. We can see that a good application of marketing means power and success.

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