Campaign strategy plays a large role in the election process for any candidate. Campaign strategies include the plans that one has to put them at some sort of advantage over the other candidate(s). This approach can be formulated in a variety of ways and many times it gets very heated on the campaign trail. All five of the candidates running for Massachusetts 10th Congressional District have their own campaign strategies that they think will help secure their chance at taking this district!
I figured I would take this week to talk about one of the candidate’s campaign strategies. The Republican Jeff Perry has been focusing on the issue of the Cape Wind project to help gain support in his campaign. On Friday, on the shores of Craigville Beach, which I am proud to say is my favorite beach; Perry stated that the Cape Wind project is a “job killer.” He also said that he would do whatever he can to make sure the project doesn’t go forward. Members of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound were holding anti-wind farm signs nearby him on the beach.
The reason why this is important is because Perry’s position on Cape Wind is very different to the Democratic candidates William Keating’s view on the issue. According to the Cape Cod Times, Keating started out the campaign opposed to the wind farm but he now supports it. He said he initially opposed the project because of computer images he saw that showed what it would look like. But his position on Cape Wind didn’t exactly “go” with his view that the country needed to stop depending so much on oil. Keating said that Cape Wind and renewable energy projects like Mass Maritime Academy and Woods Hole research would give Cape Cod the opportunity to become a leader in green jobs. On the other hand, Perry claims that the Cape Wind project would drain the economy. For instance, electricity for a small grocery store would increase about $500 a month if the Department of Public Utilities gives the “green light” on this project.
There are many issues that arise on the campaign trail. Campaign strategy serves as a way for the candidates to voice their opinions and shape how they’re going to model their movement. Candidates Jeff Perry and William Keating have used their opposing views on things like the Cape Wind project in order for each of them to individually gain support on the different sides of the spectrum.
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