Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!rob From: rob@ctvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Dumb Politics - (nf) Message-ID: <6170@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Mar-84 03:53:28 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6170 Posted: Wed Mar 14 03:53:28 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 00:32:07 EST Lines: 19 #R:uicsl:16300055:ctvax:40500002:000:612 ctvax!rob Mar 12 10:58:00 1984 Problem: Write the copy for a commercial for the Democratic Party. Your audience is an electorate that three and a half years ago gave Ronald Reagan a "mandate". You have thirty seconds. What can you expect but something short and catchy such as the implication that Ronald's the president of the rich? This, I think, is going to be Gary Hart's problem. To explain his new ideas in short slogans that people can remember. He can't say "Read my book". What percentage of Americans read ONE non-fiction book per year? Rob Spray uucp: ... {decvax!cornell!|ucbvax!nbires!|allegra!parsec!}ctvax!rob