What specific strategies can politicians use to manipulate public opinion and gain votes? Ensure that you note the psychological mechanism and theoretical justification that explains why each strategy works when discussing each strategy. After summarizing the various strategies, imagine you are the director of fictitious presidential candidate Bobby Smith’s 2024 presidential campaign. Using the strategies already mentioned, develop a step-by-step plan that Bobby Smith could follow that would allow him and his team to manipulate public opinion and gain votes most effectively. I am leaving it up to you to decide whether Bobby Smith is a Democrat or a Republican, but make sure to note his partisanship in the paper. While the strategies, in general, will be the same whether Bobby is a Democrat or a Republican, his partisanship is an important decision because it may influence what specific actions you recommend that he and his team take in your step-by-step plan to best manipulate public opinion and gain votes. Finally, in your step-by-step plan, every action you recommend must be legal.
There are two sources you must use for this essay please:
1)Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
2) Mintz, Valentino & Wayne (2022).
2) Beyond Rationality. Cambridge University Press1.
If you find peer reviewed sources to help prove the point, feel free to do.