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The purpose of this thesis was to find out how interaction situations are described in books that cover Pekka Haavisto's and Sauli Niinistö's campaigns for presidential election. It was also studied, what kind of an impression about the communication competence of Haavisto and Niinistö was given in the books. The approach for the analysis is exceptional, since it would appear that the interaction during the campaigns has previously been studied from speech and political communication's point of view in only other contexts, like in radio or television. Campaign literature has also been studied only slightly. In the research, two books about the 2012 presidential election were used as the data. So called SPEAKING-model, which is a tool to describe ways of talking and originally meant for comparing them, developed by Dell Hymes, was used to support the content analysis. Based on the research, an image of both of the candidates' typical interaction situation was compiled. The results also demonstrated that both of the candidates seem skillful and flexible communicators. Judging by the descriptions of the interaction situations, the candidates were especially able to adapt into different situations and tried to achieve open dialogs with different kinds of persons.