Sunday, October 9, 2011
Libertarian party alternative
Andre Marrou, Libertarian Party candidate in 199, Talks about third party alternatives and all the government regulations are making thing worse for the citizen. Libertarians and the founders of this country perceive Government power as opposed individual liberty. Democrats and Republicans think that government programs and government regulation is good, but in fact they are a negative impact on the people. He states that Government programs have caused more illiteracy, poverty, crime, drugs, etc.
Third party representation
She calls the two party political system that we have here in American a two party political monopoly. She states that they tell us what we want to hear and do something else. Republicans and democrats are unwilling to do anything about homelessness and they are in favor of the government rather than the people. She believes that the solution to this is an independent black lead and multi-race third party.
Who is being represented in our two party system?
Bernard Sanders talks about the lack of voting amongst poor people in the United States. He states that the reason very few people vote is because the government doesn’t represent their interest. No one is addressing issues that face the vast majority of the people. Bipartisan policy essentially favors the rich at the expense of working people and poor people. He urges that we need a third party that can tend to the needs of the less fortunate.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Vote Increases
Former Governor Kaine, talks about democratic prospects about increasing voting for people across America that don't generally vote. He talks about tactics including personal calls, e mails, polling that includes what they're happy about and what they want to see done, more voter registration, etc. These are all great tactics because so many people around America feels as though their votes don't count and that takes away from our democracy. It's important for everyone to vote because every vote counts. Strategic plans like this one may just work.
Third millennium project
In the year 2000, there was a huge issue based on the fact that young people weren't voting enough. Candidates weren't appealing to young voters and so they didn't care to vote. He talks about the interaction between young adults and candidates; there is no interaction. The t.v add buying habits go to show the interaction between political parties and young voters. Adds were primarily skewed towards older voters. Majority of eligible voters were 50 and older at the time. This is important to look at because today in 2011, there has been such an enormous change within youth voting.
Youth Vote
John Della Volpe, polling director at Harvard University talks about voting results from the millennial generation. He states that there has been an increase of voters ages 18-29, which is significant because our vote is actually what matters most for the future. It's also important because this shows that the millennial generation has been paying attention to politics and are willing to take that extra step to make a difference. He states that Obama's victory in the 2008 election is due primarily to voters within the age group of 18-29
Campaign tactics: Will they work?
In 2008, Obama’s tactics were considerably different than they are today and will be in the future. His strategies were primarily based on the economy and restoring it but they seem to be shifting towards social issues in present day electoral battlegrounds. What are some of his best tools you might ask? Well, the environment, abortion, gay rights, and of course the fight against Al Qaeda.
Obama intends to undercut the issue of the economy with the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden during his term. His argument could go something like this: killing a highly dangerous man was more important than the fall of the economy in America. Although to an extent, killing Osama may have been a victorious move on Obama’s part, it still shouldn’t give him any leeway on the issue of the economy. America needs a sense of security but at the same time, a stable economy. What will he do for us in the long run? Or will he just keep giving us excuses?
The presidential candidates go back on forth mocking one another and scrutinizing one another over one matter or another. Over the weekend, Obama accused the Republican candidates of displaying a “kind of smallness” for not ciritcizing a debate audience that booed a gay soldier that served for our country. He used this as a tool against his challengers and questioned their ability to be president. Smart move, Obama.
What did voters like about Obama in 2008 and what are they looking for in present day America?
Obama’s supporters were those in high income homes that supported his scope of social issues because they tend to be less religious and more tolerant of homosexuality and abortion rights says Dante Chinni, Patchwork Nation’s director. Obamas victory was based greatly on the “monied” suburbs which exit polls showed as suburbanites and college graduates that earned more than $200,000 a year. Today, the danger lies within the economy. Will these people steer towards the republican side or will their stance on social issues or will they remain on Obamas side? John Harwood of the New York Times writes that “their distance from the Republican right on social issues gives Mr. Obama a tool for fighting back,” and he may be right.
Obama isn’t the only one using “social issues” as a tool for re-election. Harwood writes: In Colorado, the incumbent Democratic senator, Michael Bennet, survived the 2010 Republican wave after he “shifted a chunk of the conversation off the economic and onto social issues.” Unfortunately though “It didn’t work in the 2009 race for governor of Virginia. Democrats tried to cast the Republican nominee, Bob McDonnell, as an extremist on social issues; Mr. McDonnell, now governor, focused relentlessly on the economy.
What’s fortunate for Obama as Harwood says is that Republicans can’t capitalize on national security but he can. Nor does any of the Republican candidates have any foreign policy experience; once again, Obama does. Those are major topics in the white House race, but who’s coming in first?
Rick Perry is a highly religious dude from Texas that opens his campaigns with prayers and insists that the climate changes aren’t scientifically proven to be man-made. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney, a former finance executive has focused greatly on the economy.
Who will take the lead for the election? We have a long way to go.
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