Substance is Nothing, Image is Everything
By Joey Peters on April 7th, 2008
Posted in Politics for the Hell of It | No Comments
The biggest key to winning an election is projecting a public image. It surpasses where candidates stand on the issues, how they work with others, what their personalities are like, and just about every other necessary factor needed to run a successful campaign. Remember when then-Minnesota Attorney General and 2006 DFL gubernatorial candidate Mike Hatch called a reporter a “Republican whore” one week before the election? Hatch’s loss to Gov. Pawlenty shouldn’t have been that much of a surprise to in retrospect. The sad thing is, Hatch made best election performance by a DFL gubernatorial candidate in decades, according to St. Olaf College political scientist Dan Hofrenning. Remember that this was 2006, when the Democrats swept the national elections.
To be fair, it’s quite an assumption …



