Comment on Shen Boyang’s Taipei Ocean Current, where 360,000 people received their certificates. Ye Yaoyuan: A positive campaign is the key.

Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang and Democratic Progressive Party caucus chief Tsai Chi-chang yesterday (1st) conducted a "Taipei Ocean Current | Da'an Wenshan" car sweep, attracting a large number of "Ocean Current Little Droplets" to enthusiastically support the event along the way. (File photo)

DPP Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang yesterday (2nd) appeared on "News Face to Face" hosted by lawyer Xie Zhenwu for an exclusive interview. Shen Boyang said in the interview that 360,000 supporters have received the "crew certificate" of the Taipei Ocean Stream, of which Taipei citizens account for nearly 50%, reaching 180,000. In this regard, Ye Yaoyuan, chair professor of international studies at the University of St. Thomas in the United States, bluntly said that half of the 360,000 is more or less. This type of online activities is mainly participated by young people and dark green supporters, but it may be difficult for light green and older people who are not familiar with 3C products to participate through this channel.

"I don't feel anything about the election." Ethnic groups are crucial to winning the election. Xie Zhenwu asked Shen Boyang, "Is there still a question of popularity?" Shen said that it was still a little bit close, and pointed out that one of the big reasons why the polls were close was that they were first-time voters, those who had the opportunity but did not vote, and those who "will vote for the presidential election, but not for local elections." He has attracted a lot of people in this category; however, he also hopes to convince the group of people who "have just turned on the TV screen but have no feeling about the election" that this group of people will be the key to whether he can win the election.

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Ye Yaoyuan posted a message on the Facebook fan page "Professor Ye's School of International Affairs" today, saying that an election campaign cannot be fought only in the air and not in the land war, and the air war is also dealt with by different age groups. After all, online media, traditional media, social networks or TV interviews will involve different groups.

Ye Yaoyuan believes that the core focus of this election campaign is to "break the circle" and "frontal election campaign". This is what a mature democratic country and society should be like. Just wanting to stick to the basics and unwilling to talk to the outside world will only make the decision-making self-reliant and fail to truly reflect the aspirations of the majority of the people.

Ye Yaoyuan. (File photo)