By Are Korean voters really dumb enough to fall for this?:
Campaign strategists push for a change in the name of political parties when facing an extremely unfavorable campaign landscape, as they believe that unless they do otherwise there will be no chance of winning elections.
Analysts say both ruling and opposition parties consider the card, which usually comes with a hundreds of millions of won price tag depending on the size of the party, simply because it has proven to be effective before.
Choi Young-jin, a professor of politics at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, said Friday that with the political maneuvering parties target their traditional supporters who withhold their support after they are disappointed by their preferred party.
Campaign strategists called these decades-long supporters “domestic rabbits” in comparison to “wild rabbits” referring to a new group of supporters.
“For example, conservative voters could withdraw their support for the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) as they are frustrated. But this doesn’t mean that they will look to liberal parties as an alternative in elections,” he said.
“These voters tend to remain undecided, instead of shifting their support to other parties. The conservative party seeks a facelift, including changing its name, logo and symbol to bring their old supporters back.”
The political scientist made the remarks regarding the GNP’s latest decision to change its name to appeal to the hearts and minds of voters as the National Assembly elections near. The ruling party will announce a new name with a brand-new logo Monday.
The GNP has been called such since November 1997, a month before the presidential election took place. The party had changed its name twice before ― the New Korea Party switched its name into the GNP in that year following the suggestion of Cho Soon, an economist and former mayor of Seoul.
The party was previously called the Democratic Justice Party (DJP) (1981-1990) and then the Democratic Liberty Party (DLP) (1990-1995). [Korea Times]
Anybody have any suggestions if the Democrats or Republicans wanted to change their names?
She hasn’t seen...
7:14 am on January 28th, 2012 1
Commie party and commie lite party ?
9:07 am on January 28th, 2012 2
“Anybody have any suggestions if the Democrats or Republicans wanted to change their names?”
Democrat: The Party That Takes Everything You Have And Redistributes Some Back In Measured Quantities, While Speaking Of Compassion And Caring, To Keep You Under Control
Republican: The Party That Lets Corporations Take Everything You Have And Lets Them Redistribute Some Back To You In Measured Quantities, While Speaking Of Freedom And Opportunity, To Keep You Under Control
Too wordy?
11:31 am on January 28th, 2012 3
Six and One Half Dozen
Frick and Frack
We’d Rather Be Shot and We’d Rather Be Stabbed
Spot the Differences Picture 1 and Picture 2
3:09 pm on January 28th, 2012 4
It’s fun and all to make fun of the political parties, but I just find the idea that the Dems and the Republicans are same-same to be intellectually lazy.
Yeah, they both are beholden to moneyed interests because of the way our electoral process works for the time being, but had Al Gore been president, would there have been an Iraq War? Why did anything resembling a national health care plan have to wait until after the Republicans were no longer in power?
I’m not using those as examples of what’s good/bad about Dems or what’s right/wrong with Republicans (one could argue for or against either of those), but just examples of clear and important difference.
4:07 pm on January 28th, 2012 5
The Democratic party was originality called the Republican and then Democratic-Republican Party back in the days of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In 1844 it became officially the Democratic Party.
The Republican Party started in 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin