political strategy
Electoral game plan
Political strategy is the planning and maneuvering aimed at gaining or maintaining political power.
It encompasses campaign tactics, messaging, coalition-building, and timing of actions to achieve electoral or legislative goals.
Their political strategy focused on turning out unlikely voters.
The term often implies calculated, sometimes cynical moves: a political strategy designed to divide the opposition.
- voter outreachEfforts to reach electors
- get out the voteEffort to boost turnout
- negative campaigningAttacking opponents during elections
- dirty tricksUnscrupulous competitive sabotage
- opposition researchInvestigating adversaries for damaging information
Overton window · spin · lobbying efforts · governance · media framing · narrative control · backroom deals · smoke-filled room · rapid response teams · agenda setting · policymaking · The Prince · dog whistle · triangulation · big tent · party platform · astroturfing · October surprise
- recall electionsrecall election, recall petition, recall vote, recall campaign, removal from office
- Long MarchRed Army, Mao Zedong, strategic retreat, grasslands, Sichuan
- strategytactics, tactic, tactical, military tactics, strategist
- German governmentBundestag, Bundesrat, executive, legislative, judicial