# 25. Political / organisational tricks ## 25.5. Methodology/Refinements/Sub-species ## 25.5.9. Leader-rappelling This is the technique of dropping a relatively unknown politician into the role as new leader. Often new leaders are populist politicians who are taking advantage of a weak opposition. The idea is to present a completely new, clean, popular image to a disgruntled electorate. To some extent, President Obama was such a candidate.