With the New York mayoral election just days away, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo has taken to social media on Halloween to try to warn voters against Democratic rival and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa – with the help of “embarrassing” AI-generated content.Cuom...
Do politicians even address policy and actual problems in ads anymore or is it all just using scary words about their opponents
In our first-past-the-post voting system, politicians who address policy don’t get enough votes to win elections. After consistent losses, evolution of election consultants and candidate recruitment has made the “address policy” meme near-extinct.
I believe ranked choice voting could help, but it would take multiple election evolution cycles (at least a decade) foe the now-rare political memes to rebreed up to significant population levels.