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Political discourse and the power of storytelling
November 5, 2020As it happens, I am writing this on US election day. Since readers are still encouraging me to continue writing...
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How the Biden campaign can help voters to really know Joe
September 21, 2020In the previous post, I laid out the hypothesis that most voters probably know little about Joe Biden, other...
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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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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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Storytelling: Everybody has a usable past
November 17, 2017Once again this week, I begin by repeating that I have every intention of coming back to writing about...
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How personal storytelling builds trust with listeners
February 17, 2017In a post two weeks ago, I put forth my view that, during the entire campaign, Hillary Clinton missed...
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How to lose an election
December 22, 2016John Kerry’s storytelling failure: As we observed in the previous post, I noticed a similar phenomenon in the presidential...
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Hillary Clinton’s failure was as a storyteller
December 16, 2016As we saw in our previous post, Barack Obama used his personal stories—uplifting and aspirational tales garnered from his own...
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The president as master storyteller
December 1, 2016At the end of the previous post, I cited Barack Obama as an example of a public official who...
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Storytelling in political campaigns
November 26, 2016This week, I have continued to watch analysis of Donald Trump’s stunning and unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton. It…