How To Win Your 1st Election - 9781574441307

Taylor & Francis

\""It's all here-how to run, and how to win...it's unique, written by someone who knows what it's like to throw her hat in the ring and put together a winning campaign. What I particularly like about it is its emphasis on grass roots campaigning-something our candidates and our political parties aren't doing enough of these days.\"" - Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, U.S. Presidential Candidate\""How to Win Your First Election is the ideal 'how-to' book for aspiring candidates, campaign managers, public relations consultants, and students of political science and American government.\"" - Wisconsin Bookwatch > When this book was first published in 1987, many first-time candidates unabashedly referred to it as \""the Bible.\"" Now in a new, updated edition, How to Win Your 1st Election is a step-by-step guide to the entire campaign process, from raising funds right through handling election-day jitters. Want to know where to put up signs? What to say at a candidates' forum? Ho.