Time to Get Voters to the Polls

Early voting opened quite some time ago, and many people took advantage of shorter lines to cast their vote for presidential candidate. Some were eager to cast their vote for their favorite candidate, while others were eager to be one step closer to this election season being over. It has been a long and draining national election season, and the presidential candidates know that America is tired.

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Donald Trump is using media, specifically Facebook posts and campaigns, to rally his supporters and encourage them to get to the polls. Trump’s posts continually ask, “Who is still standing with me in the final days?” and say things like, “Join me” as he urges voters to get to the polls. His communication encourages voters to stay riled up in his support and to connect with other Trump supporters in these final weary days up until Tuesday. Trump is attempting to exhibit unity between fundraising, voting, and conservative values.

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Another thing that Trump’s Facebook posts are constantly communicating are messages about “Crooked Hillary.” His media pushes news articles in addition to photos and memes of Hillary’s scandals. One of the latest articles that Trump promotes reads that Homeland Security may be calling Clinton’s email scandal “treason.” These articles and his posts about her seem to be in hopes that people will be offended by her actions and any fence- sitters will be motivated and get to the polls to vote against her.

Trump has created an interesting communicative pattern of “support me and hate her” throughout this election. His posts display alternating headlines of Trump rising in percentage points and Hillary being accused of something else. Only time will tell if this dialogue is effective in winning him the presidency.

One thought on “Time to Get Voters to the Polls

  1. I really liked your article and I wrote kind of on the same thing. He has framed his campaign around making Hillary seem like the enemy throughout the election, but it is particularly interesting how you said that he was campaigning on Facebook. I think in the final days that was really helpful in him winning the election, and it paid off. Though his campaigning did go off the rails at times, I feel as though he had this plan in his mind the whole time. But needless to say, he won and it’s done thankfully.

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