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persuasion

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My colleague Dylan Matthews recently reported on findings that voters in general elections are likely not moved at all by campaign persuasion efforts like “canvassing, phone calls, direct mail, TV, online ads, or anything else under the sun.”

From Vox

I hesitate to recommend this outright because the “Which is not that true” bit leads me to believe you might be open to the right kind of persuasion.

From Ozy

In the three short weeks until Election Day, Pa’Lante is expecting a steady deluge of messages that shift away from persuasion and move into intentional suppression by spreading messages meant to confuse and intimidate voters.

He conducts research on factors affecting human judgment and decision-making and teaches courses on persuasion and consumer behavior.

From Fortune

Many focus on issue persuasion, voter mobilization, or fundraising, and some groups use much more sophisticated approaches than others.

But Hollande was “insistent,” she writes, and “his strength of persuasion was nuclear.”

Further, creating models for persuasion is “incredibly hard.”

My mom stands there, unimpressed by my attempt at persuasion.

You might be surprised to hear that hidden in Tampa, Florida is a food oasis of the Cuban persuasion.

Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective.

After an hour's insane remonstrance, he gave in to his own alarm, rather than to the persuasion of his partner.

A year later I found Agoncillo of exactly the same intransigent persuasion.

It also legalised peaceful picketing, that particular form of persuasion with which a democratic age has become only too familiar.

We leave Pernambuco, with a firm persuasion that this part of Brazil at least will never again tamely submit to Portugal.

At his persuasion the pope purchased the vineyard, and the archological commission began the work of excavation.

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On this page you'll find 112 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to persuasion, such as: seduction, alignment, blandishment, brainwashing, cajolery, and cogency.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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