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Running for President
I'm running for President of the Student Council at my school, and I want people to give me advice on what they think would be good to say in my speech, and ideas for my campaign. I'm doing t-shirts and posters and pins and the usual for the campaign, yet the speech is a little tricky, because I don't want to promise things or use that 'im not promising anything' line. Do you remember anything you like from a speech or thought was a good idea? And from a campaign as well. Did someone in your school do something particularly eye-catching or funny or out-standing or whatever?
I need all the ideas I can get, so feedback is muchly appreciated.
I'm sixteen/f, btw, and I'm fairly friendly and popular among my peers. So I don't need ideas about how to meet more people or anything.
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hey, well you just said "you know the usual things for campaigns". thats bad right there. you dont want pins and tshirts and the usual. you want different. give out pens. everyone uses pens. also make your posterboards loud and colorful.
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I was vice-president of student council for three years and acclaimed as president the fourth year of highschool. forget the pins, t-shirts, stickers and buttons. They do not work. Do not promise parties or anything of that nature that can be seen as bribery.
The speech matters a lot. The person below is incorrect about that. Your speech is key to victory as is the way you deliver it. You have to be passionate about something and only you know what that is.
Tell them the line that you don't want to promise anything and go in top the real reason you cannot. You have to inform them that your competitors are making all kinds of promises they cannot keep.
Tell them that you can present their ideas but the adminstration is always the deciding factor as is the budget they give you. Tell them you'll only promise take their ideas to the administration and fight for them rather than promise that which you cannot keep.
Tell them how tight you plan to be with the administration. Let them know popularlarity doesn't count at all and tell them why. If you come across looking as though you have really thought out what a president has to do you can win. But don't go with gimmicks such as t-shirts and pins and stickers.
Develop a platform and stick to it in your speeches and everything else that you are approaching running for president from a common sense approach, what you see is what you get campaign and show them what a good president is versus someone who writes cheques they cannot catch.
You have to let them know what a president can acieve versus what they cannot once elected and knock your opponents down and out that way.
These thoughts and words must come from your own mind as a line that worked for someone else won't for you. Essentially, you need to figure out what the real reason is for you wanting to run and write speeches from that desire and passion.
You will need posters with a slogan people remember but don't overdo it. place them in strategic places in the school and not all over the place. I wouldn't put up more than 10-20 posters. You want to be remembered but come across as mature and knowing exactly what you are doing rather than be in your face.
Just be honest with others and don't exaggerate your abilities in anything you tell them in a speech. Keep your speech to five minutes and outline all the areas where you will make a differenc e and where you see your competition going wrong already.
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What you say and do will only sway your vote results by like 5%. High school elections are a total popularity contest, so your speech wont really matter that much. For that matter, neither will tshirts posters or pins. you say you are fairly popular, thats all that matters, unless somone who is way popular is running against you.
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