Assessing Obama's Election Campaign Strategies in Australia

This report examines the effectiveness of Barack Obama's election campaign strategies within the Australian political context. It analyzes Obama's approach to key issues such as tax reform and social media engagement, drawing parallels between the American and Australian political landscapes. The report highlights Obama's use of social media to reach younger voters, a strategy that could be beneficial in Australia. It also discusses the importance of understanding voter preferences through predictive analysis. The paper argues that Obama's strategies, particularly regarding tax systems and providing opportunities for all social classes, could have significant implications for Australia's economic growth and social equity. The analysis includes references to specific Obama campaign adverts and their potential relevance to Australian politics.

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Effectiveness of Barrack Obama election adverts in Australian political context
The following paper will look to discuss about the effectiveness of election campaign strategies
by Barrack Obama in the Australian political conditions. Obama is considered as one of the most
successful administrators in the United States political scenario (Youtube.com. 2007). He has
effectively introduced several policies in the American system that had attracted the voters in
different regions in USA. Obama had looked upon the issues like reinventing tax systems within
USA provinces that changed the entire scenario of the country. The fiscal cliff agreement by
Obama had been enacted in the year 2013. According to tjhis agreement, the taxes were
increased and the spending amount of Government had been decreased.
Therefore, it was a matter of great importance in the political and economic scenario of
the country. As Australian Federal structure is largely dependent on the taxes, it would surely
have large scale implications on the economic growth of the country. It would surely helped the
GDP of the Australia to grow in a big scale (Youtube.com. 2007). This is why this strategy of
Barrack Obama could have fit in the political context of Australia. Apart from that there are
several other strategies that Obama took care of. He used the social media to reach the new age
voters. The new voters had been manipulated largely by Obama’s election strategy team.
Therefore, it would also be helpful for Australia to use this social media strategy (Youtube.com.
2007). It is because a large proportion of Australian youth will likely to spend much time in the
social media.
So, politicians in Australia could gain higher benefits indeed. Barrack Obama was
completely an outsider when he contested in 2008 as compared to Hillary Clinton. Everyone
expected that Obama would not stand his ground against the mighty Hillary Clinton. But his
strategies did all the work for him. Since he was so sure that social media strategy would click

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for him, he had appointed a younger staff than that of Clinton. It is because the staffs appointed
by Hillary Clinton belonged to the presidency of Bill Clinton and they do not have much idea
about using social media to connect with the voters. Therefore, he addressed the voters in
different provinces. Therefore, politicians from Australia would benefit from this social media
strategy and give this responsibility to younger Australians. In the case of Australian politics, the
staff appointed for Prime Minister Candidates would be able to build the algorithms that would
help them to identify if the voters of a particular region like Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmania
would be persuadable.
Effectively, they could be able to build up a proper connection between the politicians
and the Torres Strait islanders. Obama always wanted to connect with their voters effectively so
he could understand what the votes wanted from him. The predictive analysis with the help of
advanced technology would surely help him to build up this connection. It has been notably seen
that Australian tax system has been going through some unfair stages of late. It would be of great
help to rebuild this tax system in a new way (Youtube.com. 2012). Particularly, candidate agents
would have to build up the proper strategies so the tax systems could be revitalized. Obama had
ended the Bush tax cuts that would be highly effective for USA tax system to be designed in a
new manner. Obama wanted to put up new types of tax systems in a better method by providing
better opportunities for both wealthy people and middle class American people to contribute to
the development of the tax system (Youtube.com. 2012).
These adverts suggest that Obama gave enough opportunities to working Americans and
middle class Americans with the opportunities that would surely give them enough space for
education and high tech research. Therefore, Australian people would also be benefitted if their
tax structures are redesigned and people of all social status will get their deserved opportunities

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for educational facilities (Youtube.com. 2012). Every Australian common people will be able to
contribute to their parts and gain the maximum advantage for themselves. The social differences
between rich, wealthy and poor people would be abolished. Thus this would bring parity in the
Australian social system. The wealthiest merchants in Australia will thus pay their fair share in
tax systems indeed.

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Reference List
Youtube.com. (2007). Keeping His Word: Restoring Fairness To Our Tax System. Retrieved
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNDE25a_OF8
Youtube.com. (2012). Young Americans - OFA Florida. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YAgMd_-BuU