Versus Attacking

In the last weeks before any election, campaigns always try to stay on the offense. They want to garner headlines, and conflict generates headlines. They want to control events, instead of being driven by them, and going on the offense helps accomplish that. They want to choose how to present the candidate, and initiating topics, instead of responding to others, empowers a campaign to emphasize the aspects of the candidate that the campaign prefers.

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