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When presidential candidates miss a major point about storytelling
August 9, 2020As I have often stated, my interest in politics is not more than peripheral. There are times, though, when...
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Analyzing political campaigns through the lens of personal storytelling
August 1, 2020When I think back to the period leading up to the 2016 United States presidential election, one of my memories...
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Hillary Clinton simply failed to build trust
July 22, 2020My plan to write about how Joe Biden could use personal storytelling to help him build trust with the...
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Politicians and trust
July 3, 2020Most of the time, I hesitate to bring up any type of political matter here, unless there is a...
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Politics and narrative: why people need a human story
January 30, 2018My recent forays into political commentary have elicited a number of reactions from people who have been following my...
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Hillary Clinton returns: What happened?
November 10, 2017Breaking stories about social media, polarization, fake news, and outside influencers are again plentiful this week, and it remains...
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The stress of talking politics in our polarized world
October 6, 2017These days, I have been traveling more than usual, much of it to New York for work with clients...
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Language and polarization
August 31, 2017In the last post, we wrote that political discourse appears to be moving away from logic and rational argument,...
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Emotion trumps fact and reason
April 26, 2017In a post dated March 24, I listed some of the items I reflected on as I watched CNN’s...
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“Nobody predicted this”: How Donald Trump’s narrative persuaded Middle America
April 12, 2017Our last post closed with a cursory discussion of Donald Trump’s use of personal narrative during his successful campaign...