How to convince your friends to vote for your favorite 2016 candidate, in 6 easy steps

Be cool. Be strategic. And don't be afraid to resort to bribery.

Follow these steps to charmingly sway your friends to agree with your candidate of choice.
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Congratulations! You've made it through approximately 793 debates, thousands of soundbites, endless nasty mudslinging, and multiple forests worth of campaign mailers to finally land on the person you want to vote for for president. Now, you just need to convince other people to throw their support behind your candidate.

But how do you do that? Just follow our simple guide. If you do it right, you'll be more successful than Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Martin O'Malley, and Jim Gilmore combined.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.