Describe some of the strategies that political parties use to encourage citizens to vote

1) Location & Demographics Analysis :

Different neighborhoods tend to attract people that fall within similar demographic groups, which is how campaigns target who to hit with ads, campaign events, etc.

2) (Meaningful) Social Media Analysis :

Everyone today is looking at social media nowadays. politics try to grow awareness of people's business using ads.

3. Separating Good vs Bad Customers :

In politics, showing up to support the candidate when they're in town needs to translate to volunteering or donating for a campaign, or the candidates will lose steam quickly.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

confederacy: supported slavery, believed states should be able to nullify federal laws, supported low tariffs

union: everything else