Talk:Political campaign

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Contents 1 Distinguishing 2 Hustings 3 History 4 Merge? 5 Quote attribution 6 category rename

[edit] Distinguishing

I have attempted to introduce a definition that distinguishes campaigning (aimed at involving large numbers of people in bringing about political change) from lobbying (direct relationships between interest groups and politicians).

This is a substantial change from the original article. I think it's valuable and I have some personal experience of the area. However I have no idea what, if any, academic consensus about this there is. The Land 20:16, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi, new to wikipedia... but I wanted to mention that "electioneering" is the large scale, coordinated effort to rig a voting system. It is a legally defined term. Not just a political campaign, so "electioneering" should not redirect to "Political Campaign" but should become it's own topic...

[edit] Hustings

I am surprised that nothing is said about hustings. – Kaihsu 18:55, 2005 Feb 5 (UTC)

[edit] History

I added a history of American campaigns and a reading list of major books. Richard Jensen 67.176.74.236 05:27, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

Should this article's information be merged with this article: Political campaign staff --Blue387 02:23, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

no. The Land 08:31, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

no. The political campaign staff article is long enough to be on its own. -Tjss 03:08, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quote attribution

The "Money is the mothers milk of politics" quote is from Jesse Unruh, there's an article about him, shouldn't we attribute the quote? Saline

Done; hopefully that is correct as there is no reference in that article. -- Beland 21:08, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] category rename

I've proposed to rename Category:Campaigning to Category:Election campaigning. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_September_25#Category:Campaigning. This might knock on to this article and others in the same category. Thanks jnestorius^(talk) 23:59, 25 September 2006 (UTC)