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Unbeknown to many of you, during election campaigning many politicians engage deliberate psychological techniques to get you to vote for them.

They engage in these techniques because, most elections, whether it is for a class captain, the leader of a political party, or a seat on council, are based on how persuasive and charismatic the candidate is rather than on any policies they would like to implement, or their abilities if elected to a position of power.