{"id":1585,"date":"2020-07-30T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2020-07-30T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T16:32:45","slug":"political-rhetoric-social-media-and-american-presidential-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/political-rhetoric-social-media-and-american-presidential-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Rhetoric: Social Media and American Presidential Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My editor informed me my book, &#8220;Political Rhetoric: Social Media and American Presidential Campaigns,&#8221; will go into production in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I hope my book helps others understand the persuasive influence of words used by our presidential candidates through the media each candidate uses.<\/p>\n<p>Words matter&#8211;because words lead people to action.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential candidates can use the media to build their campaign narrative.<\/p>\n<p>I explore the significance of how all new types of media influenced presidential campaigns throughout history. Then I concentrate on Barack Obama&#8217;s campaign use of the blog, Mitt Romney&#8217;s use of Twitter, Hillary Clinton&#8217;s credibility problems throughout her political media history, and Donald Trump&#8217;s Rhetrickery.<\/p>\n<p>I also explore the 2016 campaign narrative&#8211;to help you understand how every four years presidential campaigns build a story. And who wins&#8211;usually has a more persuasive narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My editor informed me my book, &#8220;Political Rhetoric: Social Media and American Presidential Campaigns,&#8221; will go into production in a couple of weeks. I hope my book helps others understand the persuasive influence of words used by our presidential candidates through the media each candidate uses. Words matter&#8211;because words lead people to action. Presidential candidates can use the media to build their campaign narrative. I explore the significance of how all new types of media influenced presidential campaigns throughout history. Then I concentrate on Barack Obama&#8217;s campaign use of the blog, Mitt Romney&#8217;s use of Twitter, Hillary Clinton&#8217;s credibility problems throughout her political media history, and Donald Trump&#8217;s Rhetrickery. I also explore the 2016 campaign narrative&#8211;to help you understand how every four years presidential campaigns build a story. And who wins&#8211;usually has a more persuasive narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}