Osborn Club Lecture
Date/Time: | Monday, 08 Oct 2012 at 7:00 pm |
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Location: | Gold Room, Hilton Garden Inn, 1325 Dickenson Ave., Ames |
URL: | http://www.ent.iastate.edu/osbornclub/pr...grams/view |
Contact: | Kan Wang |
Phone: | 515-294-4429 |
Channel: | Groups, governance |
Categories: | Lectures |
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Lecture abstract: Candidates work hard to craft the image of their personality presented to voters. They spend millions of dollars and large amounts of their time in an effort to project a very specific sense of who they are. Academic research on the topic takes a very skeptical view of these efforts. Election winners and losers, scholars hold, result from fundamentals like the economy and the partisan balance on the country. In this work, I demonstrate the power of the media in crafting the image of who the candidates are and that these images are partially responsible for who wins in November.