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« on: September 04, 2015, 07:14:15 PM »

What is your elevator pitch for your preferred candidate? If you got onto an elevator with a hugely influential person, or simply an undecided voter from a swing state, how would you sell your candidate to them in just two or three sentences?
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« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2015, 07:37:09 PM »

Yes, I know he is pretty bad, but he is slightly better than the rest.
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« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2015, 08:01:55 PM »

Here's my elevator pitch if I wanted to persuade someone to vote for Hillary Clinton. While Hillary is my own first choice to vote for a candidate if the election was held today, I want to portray the situation as where I can influence a voter into voting for my candidate.

"Good morning." I comment to the other individual in the elevator.

"Morning" he replies.

"The election is today," I comment. "are you going to vote?"

"No, thanks!" The man replies, "anyway all those politicians are crooks."

At the moment I can't believe what I just heard, but with a calm expression I explain why not only should he go out and vote, but should vote for Hillary Clinton.

"Wait!" I call out to the man, as the elevator doors open. "before you go, I want to explain why I want you to vote today... For Hillary."

"Hillary Clinton is the best choice America has today. A realist with unbelievable confidence who has faith in not only our country, but for each and everyone of us to succeed in the 21st century." I comment with a smile, "Don't believe me, remember that ever since her year in second grade, Hillary learned the importance of beginning a project and seeing it's finished on time. To me that proves since she was a young girl a world leader in the making."

Afterward the man left the elevator and voter for Hillary Clinton. Hey, a woman can dream can't she. haha.
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« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2015, 08:09:36 PM »

Ambushing a captive audience with a political spiel is a douchebag thing to do.
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« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2015, 08:12:05 PM »

Sanders is a rare politician who directly addresses the economic concerns of ordinary working Americans. Most politicians are beholden to the powerful, but Sanders fights for the little guy in a very honest and direct way.
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« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2015, 08:14:25 PM »

Unlike the other candidates, Governor Bush has private sector experience as well as leading Florida as a conservative, reform-minded Governor. He's the candidate in this race who has a hopeful and optimistic agenda to change Washington so we can finally grow our economy by embracing free markets and limited government.
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« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2015, 08:46:40 PM »

Break the elevator and blackmail them in to voting correctly.
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« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2015, 08:48:38 PM »

Marco Rubio is the son of immigrants who refuses to pander to his party's radicals, and has shown a great grasp of foreign policy in his one term as a Senator. As potentially the first Latino President, he's uniquely qualified to help the Republicans win back this key part of the national coalition. He's waged a quiet but competent campaign so far, and has the fewest negatives and gaffes of anyone in the field. He's the one the Democrats fear, because he turns most of their most effective arguments on their head.
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« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2015, 09:13:12 PM »

Ask fellow elevator rider the following questions:

1 What is the most important issue to you?
2 What is your religion?
3 Are you a liberal or conservative?

Tell them that Bernie Sanders agrees with them regardless of whether he actually does.
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« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2015, 09:26:05 PM »

He's not a smug corporate sellout and he's never commented about wanting to date his own daughter because she has a "nice figure".

Vote4Bernie

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« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2015, 09:29:52 PM »

Think about every candidate who is in this race, and ask yourself this one question, where have they fought and stood and have they backed down from their principles. There's only one man who has done that and his name is Ted Cruz, he's stood on Religous freedom, Iran, Planned Parenthood and Illegal Immigration before anyone else has. He's the only true conservative running and he can fix America.
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« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2015, 10:31:07 PM »

"Hands in the air. Put them in your pockets, that's a boy. There's four of us. I've only this knife under m y coat. Turn around and grab me, and they have orders to shoot both of us. Follow me to the voting booth. Stop following me and they will grab you before you can move a yard."

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"All right, we're here. Now, go in. Vote J-O-H-N K-A-S-I-C-H. Take this recording camera with you to prove it."

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"Pleasure doing business with you, sir/ma'am."

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« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2015, 12:08:28 AM »

Ask fellow elevator rider the following questions:

1 What is the most important issue to you?
2 What is your religion?
3 Are you a liberal or conservative?

Tell them that Bernie Sanders agrees with them regardless of whether he actually does.

This made me smile.
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« Reply #13 on: September 05, 2015, 12:20:25 AM »

Assuming they're on the left of the American spectrum: Vote for Bernie Sanders because Hillary is going to win anyway, and the better Bernie Sanders does, the more people will realize that the left is a real factor.

If they're not on the left, then I'll get into a philosophical debate with them about why left-wing politics is better. Continue arguing until elevator is fixed.
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« Reply #14 on: September 05, 2015, 04:01:55 AM »

"The average elevator friend, moves at only 500 feet a minute. What if I told you that a candidate for President would change that? Yes, my friend, vote Lincoln Chafee and you could be whizzing at 153 metres per minute in the elevator like a goddamn king"
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« Reply #15 on: September 05, 2015, 04:57:18 AM »

Vote for Kasich, he's not f[inks]ing crazy.
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