And different audiences dictate just what the campaigners promote as the panacea for job growth: higher taxes, lower taxes, deregulation, more regulation, job training... all are constant refrains.
But new technology offers as much to the electorate as it does to the campaigner, promoting new levels of engagement between politicians and the people they represent.
New technology offers as much to the electorate as it does to the campaigner, promoting new levels of engagement between politicians and the people they represent.
Such protests get a lot of publicity for the cause which the campaigners are promoting.
Few people in the rich world now admit that they wish drastically to reduce the value of exports from the poor nations, but several prominent campaigners are promoting policies which lead to this outcome.
Similarly, "childless" is the commonly used word, whereas campaigners who promote the use of "child-free" do so to make a point that they have consciously chosen not to have children.
Many have already installed equipment to handle dollar coins "but we didn't reap the savings by implementing the switch," laments Aaron Klein, a consultant to the Dollar Coin Alliance, an advocacy group.Having failed to persuade Congress to kill the dollar bill for business reasons, campaigners now promote it as a painless way to reduce the deficit.
Education campaigners warned that promoting grammar schools did not necessarily improve social mobility, despite the excellent results earned by the 5% of state secondary school pupils who attended them.
This clamping down on open debate is the enemy of liberty and a progressive society – the very social standards these campaigners would otherwise be promoting.
The BBC was forced to remove material from its websites yesterday after gay campaigners attacked it for promoting homophobic songs by reggae artists that appear to encourage violence.
