Some have seized on the Chinese sympathy for the weak, appealing to voters as family members of "political victims." Some ruling party candidates take a tack of being more "oppositionist" than the opposition, promoting themselves as someone who dares to criticize.
有的助選員抓住了中國人同情弱者的心理，利用社會事件把候選人塑造成「政治受難家屬」；也有執政黨候選人以「比黨外更黨外」的姿態來凸顯他勇於批評的形象。