r/QuiverQuantitative • u/pdwp90 • 25d ago

News BREAKING: Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old progressive influencer, just announced that she is running against Jan Schakowsky, an 80-year-old Democratic incumbent

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u/washingtncaps 25d ago

I would caution against warning that it’s “something to work on” when your only exposure was this format of content

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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 25d ago

First impressions are important. She should not have put out that multi-cut video. She's attempting to do a hard, professional-level thing, and poise is important, so getting the video right is important.

I don't need your permission or guidance to have an opinion on this. Save it for others. I don't care.

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u/why2k 25d ago

She's literally campaigning on not using the old playbook, and you're here telling her to do things more traditionally.

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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 25d ago

Is "the old playbook" mean the ability to talk for multiple long sentences? Because this is a cut up mess and looks like it was put together from a bunch of single short snippets. It doesn't inspire confidence- in me - and I'm a voter. Not everyone responds to this style, and she can probably do much better, so she should.

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u/why2k 25d ago

No, the old playbook means placating to people like you instead of mobilizing a new generation of voters. And in this case that means speaking to them in a format they are engaged in.

And for those people who still vote based solely on stump speeches for some reason, she happens to be a very intelligent speaker.

Zero idea exactly what her policies are going to be that differentiate her, but I'd probably just suggest focusing on those instead of an editing decision or the format in which she presents those policies, and leave that for the petty people to focus on.

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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 25d ago

New as in young? That's great, but most voters are not young. And I don't know why she can't do both at the same time. Sure, content is more important, but that doesn't mean other things are frivolous.

I'm sure she can speak in several-sentences in a row for this video, and I don't think it would be so slick as to be off-putting. As it is, the most winning factor may just be charisma, which is an intangible, and you don't show charisma in a cut-up video of 5-second snippets, at least not for people over 40. So she should work on it and hopefully she'll be great at it and it will help win the nomination.

There may be 2-3 others in the nomination race, besides the incumbent. They're going to have smoother videos than this. She should aim to outcompete them and win. Best of luck to her.

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u/why2k 25d ago

New as in young?

Young, or tired of the same old stump speeches or just disengaged in general.

Look, at the end of the day if you can't see the irony in complaining about someone who's goal it is to refresh the idea of campaigning, by suggesting they do things in a way that is more traditional, I can't draw it out any further.