Election Day is Saturday and candidates are vying for voter’s attention through political ads and technology in the final push. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says more candidates are blowing up voters’ phones with campaign text messages than phone calls.
“If you’re sending them a text and he’s always looking at his phone he or she, then text messaging seems to be the preferred tool right now they’re using to reach more and more people.”
Pinsonat says candidates are more focused on getting their message out to registered voters. He says mudslinging ads towards Jeff Landry this late in the game are less impactful.
“You really need to attack someone starting two or three weeks or four weeks out. But a last-minute attack is generally not that big of a deal to the voters especially when all of the opponents are so far back.”
Pinsonat points out that in this final stretch, registered voters will see more campaign ads, hear more radio ads, and receive more text messages from candidates.
“You will see the candidates will make a push with whatever money they have left they can spend it and it will be all the various means to communicate with the voters. We’ll see it happening in the next five days.”
Election Day is October 14th. Polls are open from 7 AM to 8 PM.
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