In the final days before the nation's first primary, the major candidates' image-makers are in overdrive.
What factors, including personal characteristics like hairstyles and dress as well as campaign theme songs, contribute to the candidates' images?
For 1956, professional advertisers were hired to "swing crucial voters" in "the undecided or listless mass," trolling for weaknesses in candidates' images.
That development is reducing reliance on expensive television advertising time, diminishing the control of consultants over their candidates' images and threatening more fundamental changes.
We talk to the chief television critic at The New York Times, James Poniewozik, about how television and film characters past and present inform our views of both candidates — or have been created in the candidates' images.
While some images cited here emanated from campaign organizations, even more came from bloggers and YouTubers who, without consulting paid political professionals, are taking candidates' images into their own hands.
Both candidates have experienced and hard-hitting campaign teams, and their relative success in taking control of the candidates' images in the next month or two could go a long way toward determining what happens on Nov. 6.
What a particular campaign chooses to sell may not reveal anything momentous about a candidate who has little to say about the inventory (unless, of course, they have relatives in the novelty or dry goods businesses), but the products do say something about how strategists use consumer culture to propagate the candidates' images (and get free advertising).
Based on the edge map generated from the enhanced candidates images using HIE, the IFVF segmentation result of these candidates C1 C3 are shown in Figure 9e.
For selection of best surgical candidates, images should be evaluated according to the grading system proposed by Jahrsdorfer et al. [9], who evaluated eight critical areas of temporal bone anatomy, each area receiving 1 rating scale point, with the exception of the presence of a stapes, which received 2 points (Table 1).
