Overview
Your task is to do the following:
You have been hired as a campaign consultant for 'Candidate Smith' to help get ready for the 2020 Presidential election. In order to advise this candidate, you will need to create an analysis of the 2016 Presidential Election and how Trump won. You will be comparing the Trump and Clinton media campaigns, analyzing the demographics/political structure of 2 swing states and writing your final recommendations in the form of a 2-4 page single-spaced memo to the Smith Campaign based upon your research findings.
Directions
To craft your memo, refer back to the Greenberg-Page sections How and Why People's Political Attitudes Differ (Chapter 5) and Who Votes (Chapter 10) as well as the following information from the projects you have completed this week:
Analysis of campaign videos
Analysis of the statistics of the 2 swing states you chose
Summary of the information about Trump and Clinton's media campaign from your discussion this week · 2016 Presidential Election Circus: Is Social Media the Cause??(Links to an external site.)· Did Social Media Ruin Election 2016??(Links to an external site.)· Candidates Differ in Their Use of Social Media To Connect with the Public?(Links to an external site.)· Can 140 Characters Affect the 2016 Presidential Election?