Why is it important to do self-research when running for office?
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Ron Faucheux is one of America's top political and public affairs analysts. Contributor-at-Large for Campaigns & Elections magazine - a nonpartisan publication he previously published and edited - he writes a column on politics and public opinion.
Currently head of government affairs for the American Institute of Architects, Dr. Faucheux is a former state legislator and cabinet secretary. He's the author of the acclaimed book for candidates, Running for Office; editor of The Debate Book, a manual of standards and guidelines for political debates; and editor of Winning Elections, a treasure chest of the best campaign advice ever published.
He's handled 116 candidate and issue campaigns as a media consultant and campaign strategist. He's worked on a wide range of issue advocacy, association, corporate and grassroots lobbying campaigns.
Since the early 1990s, he's made over 350 national television appearances and has anchored his own national cable TV news show. His network appearances have included the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, The Lou Dobbs Show on CNN, ABC's Nightline, NBC's The Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America.
He's trained thousands of political candidates, issue advocates, corporate executives and association leaders. The campaign "message development" process he created has been used successfully by many campaigns, large and small, around the world.
Dr. Faucheux graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, received a law degree from the LSU Law Center and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of New Orleans.
He teaches courses in Campaign Management and Running For Office at The Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University and at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute.
He was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives at 25 - at the time the legislature's youngest member. He was re-elected twice, once with 84 percent of the vote and once without opposition. He also served as state Secretary of Commerce.
Dr. Faucheux resides in the Washington, D.C. area. His office is located at 1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006-5292
Why is it important to do self-research when running for office?
Political and public affairs analyst Ron Faucheux gives advice for people running for elected office, including the importance of self-research.
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Host:Why is it important to do self research?
Ron Faucheux: You have to expect in a political campaign that your opponents will attack you on any number of fronts and you need to have a sense of where they may attack, that is why self research is so important. If you have a legislative voting record, you need to understand it, you need to remember and have well-developed positions as to why you voted the way you did, in ways that you can explain in a clear way in a political campaign. Sometimes complex issues are tough to explain in a sound bite. So it takes preparations to deal with that and to do that. You have to have a sense of that your own business and personal affairs are in order and you want to get them in order; you want to be proud of your personal background; you want to be able to correct any mistakes that you may have made, so that you can explain to the voters what the truth is, what the facts are and self research is important to getting to that point, to look at your own background and do it objectively and to see where they can attack you, so that you have a sense of how to deal with that.
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