Why Most Marketing and Political Campaigns Fail

In both business and politics, leaders tend to overestimate how much they have in common with their audience

James Surowiecki
Marker
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4 min readMar 9, 2021

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Perhaps the most basic political fact about the Covid relief bill Congress just passed —and that I wrote about a couple of days ago — is that its provisions are, for the most part, widely popular and…

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James Surowiecki
Marker
Writer for

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.