Comments on: Perceptions are reality, aren’t they? http://www.prmatters.co.nz/perceptions-are-reality-aren%e2%80%99t-they/ fresh thinking - influential communication Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:35:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Geoff http://www.prmatters.co.nz/perceptions-are-reality-aren%e2%80%99t-they/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Geoff Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:35:06 +0000 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=44#comment-36 I am not sure that this proves that perception exceeds reality. More, its a different interpretation of reality. Sarah Palin is an experienced person, though not in the finer point of Washington Government. She has been a local politician of note, a community activist, has brought up five children and has been active in the GOP. She clearly has enough experience to have well developed views on many issues. Relative to others she may be inexperienced, but that is not her appeal. Most importantly for the Republicans, she represents a contrasting image to the strong liberal pull of Barak Obama. The degree of success of this move is immediately apparent in the impact on the opinion polls. The current poll trend may not last, but she has provided, in her very being, a visual image which many Americans can attach to. She is a case of a picture is worth a thousand words because clearly many Americans can see themselves in this picture and that's why she is supported. It illustrates a very important art of communication. You paint a picture and then you place people in it. There is a substantial number of Americans who don't like the liberal picture of Obama (many do of course)and Palin represents a different reality. Geoff 11 September 2009 I am not sure that this proves that perception exceeds reality. More, its a different interpretation of reality. Sarah Palin is an experienced person, though not in the finer point of Washington Government. She has been a local politician of note, a community activist, has brought up five children and has been active in the GOP. She clearly has enough experience to have well developed views on many issues. Relative to others she may be inexperienced, but that is not her appeal.

Most importantly for the Republicans, she represents a contrasting image to the strong liberal pull of Barak Obama. The degree of success of this move is immediately apparent in the impact on the opinion polls. The current poll trend may not last, but she has provided, in her very being, a visual image which many Americans can attach to.

She is a case of a picture is worth a thousand words because clearly many Americans can see themselves in this picture and that’s why she is supported.

It illustrates a very important art of communication. You paint a picture and then you place people in it. There is a substantial number of Americans who don’t like the liberal picture of Obama (many do of course)and Palin represents a different reality.

Geoff
11 September 2009

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