How To Win Your 1st Election

When this book was first published in 1987 many first-time candidates unabashedly referred to it as the Bible. Now in a new updated edition How to Win Your 1st Election is a step-by-step guide to the entire campaign process from raising funds right through handling election-day jitters. Want to know where to put up signs? What to say at a candidates' forum? How to dress to make the best possible impression? Let Susan Guber who beat out seven other candidates in her first election show you the way.How to Win Your 1st Election is an ideal book for aspiring candidates campaign managers public relations consultants and students of political science and U.S. government. Written in a clear easy-to-read style it devotes entire chapters to topics such as hiring staff managing the media creating a public image writing and delivering speeches and campaign ethics. What's more it's one of the few books out there that offers a full comprehensive look at our country's unique electoral system-as seen through the eyes of an experienced insider. Susan Guber put this information to work for herself in three successful campaigns. Won't you try the same?