What Will Be The Deciding Factor?

Voters are still making up their minds and the pools have been pretty even lately. In the last week though, all that has been talked about has been the economy. And take a wild guess on who leads now. “A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll suggests that by a 2-to-1 margin, Americans blame Republicans over Democrats for the financial crisis that has swept across the country the past few weeks.” Could the economy be the deciding factor in this election? There is a good chance. Obama now leads by 5 points, which is not a substantial difference, but puts him ahead. People want to see change in the economy and Obama is offering that. It is definitely not easy to be the republican candidate right now, thanks to Bush. And to be honest, I give a lot of credit to McCain for making the election this close.

It is unquestionable that the theme of this campaign has been, and will continue to be, change. Obama has a more Challenger Style than McCain does, and right now people are responding to that. Obama seems to have more energy, more of a fire when he speaks. He is very good at getting the crowd excited and involved, and he always seems to take an offensive position on issues. It is undeniable that he is a better orator that McCain. But McCain is making a very conscious effort to make people believe that he will bring change as well. On the video attached at the end of this post, you can hear McCain say: “Change is coming to a neighborhood near you.” So who will the American public believe? I’m not sure. But I do think that the candidate who can convey the message of change (especially economy change) and emphasize optimism for the future, will win the election.

You have to go to this website And then look for the video called: Economic woes boost Obama 2:41
The Website - http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/09/22/bts.obama.era.of.greed.cnn

Blah, blah, blah...

At this point in the election, just a few short days before the very first official Presidential debate, most U.S. citizens feel like they’ve heard it all; the same hot topics and their respective “stock speeches” are being recycled and reprocessed to better fit into numerous appearances, rallies, and interviews. Those speech writers can’t fool us--no matter how they try and rearrange the lexicon, certain key words reverberate in our ears.

Prompted by the Brooklyn Art Project, I headed to wordle.com and made an image summary of which words are used the most frequently on Obama and McCain’s blogs (the size of a word is relative to its recurrence). The results had some surprising effect--for myself, at least. I for one, didn’t know Barack cared so much about grandmothers…

addressing the audience

Who are Maccain and Obama Addressing ? Who is the audience ?
now after really studying about the campaigns and analysing the candidates speeches .. it really seems to me that they are not addressing us the public the American people, they are only addressing each other. To me it seems that each campaign feels that it's more important to address each other instead of us voters. When is the last time we have heard anything about the issues until today? When is the last time an ad actually spoke to you as opposed to speaking about the other guy?When are people going to stand up and say this has to stop NOW?

We have two candidates who break out a ruler and measure themselves on a daily basis as opposed to talking about what they plan on doing for the 4 years they are in office. I don't want to hear about innuendo on who slept with who, whose son is better in Iraq or any of that other garbage and neither should you.There are countless threads and postings about the issues yet none of them contain anything about what either one of these candidates plans to do. We talk about this being a forum to vent our frustrations but the frustrations people are talking about are meaningless!! Lipstick, age, black, white, Muslim, drugs etc.... None of that is going to correct the issues going on with this country. I don't care how well Obama speaks. I don't care if people think Palin is a milf and I don't care about Biden or Mccain's age. you should care about your country not being at war, or care about your country being economically prosperous.

I want is a week of the candidates speaking on the issues. Tell me what you think about the economy, Iraq/Afghanistan etc and other issues. PLease stop telling me about Mccain's vote in regards to being able to pass a school bus from 1977 or the fact that Obama has a Muslim sounding middle name or that Palin once said "Sambo" . Please for the sake of this country and its citizens...please address US and not each other. There are a lot more than 4 people voting in November and it's really not very humble of either candidates.
after reading chapter 6, i honestly dont think that these candidates know who the public is, and who their audiences are.

Leadership status of Economics

As both Wall Street and Main Street alike prepare to react and recover to the recent collapses of Freddie and Fannie Mae, Lehman Brothers, and the federal bailout of AIG, Sen. McCain has an opening to make the case to the American people that he has the judgment to lead in tough economic times. Well before this catastrophe occured, Sen. McCain sought to reform both Freddie and Fannie because of fears that what has happened would happen.
I've got the chance the last few days to go over a few of the economic standings of both candidates because of my marco economics class. I feel that Obama has a strong hold for what we are going through economically and is very aggressive with his arguements. McCain doesn't seem to support that we are in need of drastic changes. He is aware of whats going on, but I just don't feel he can successfully do what needs to be done to help as a nation.

Obama voters increase with latest economic crisis

Barack Obama has surged to a 5 point lead over John McCain in the latest Gallup Daily poll. Following one of the most down weeks in Wall Street history, voters clearly doubt McCain's ability to steer the U.S. economy toward a recovery. Legislators will meet next week to push through a multi-pronged government rescue effort aimed at calming markets and restoring investor confidence. In the meantime, the Republican administration has essentially put free-market capitalism on a time out, bringing billions of dollars of private enterprise onto the U.S. balance sheet, and outlawing short sales of financial companies.We'll see next week if this last-gasp effort on behalf of regulators helps soothe the markets.
The way Obama has talked of the economic crisis has sawyed many voters and businesses throughout the nation. I had a chance to see a public announcement Obama made on youtube. It is just labeled as "Obama on Economic Crisis" at youtube.com. It showed several strenghs in his ideas as well as what he felt should be changed.

Why Obama's Health Plan Is Better

Obama points out the big threat to growth in the next decade will be the rising cost of health care instead of oil or food prices. He also outlines the harmful effect of the rising health costs by explaining that they could push total employment costs up and wages and benefits down. This is the typical challenger strategy of calling for a change.
The news release then outlines that Obama’a proposal will modernize America’s current system of employer and government provided health, keeping what works well, and making the investments now that will lead to a more efficient medical system. By outlining the bright future after implementing Obama’s proposal, actually Obama’s campaign team is emphasizing optimism for the future.
However, Obama does not stop there. He continues with explaining his 5-step solutions to show the electorate that he’s not merely attacking the record just for the sake of attack; he could produce the desired changes for Americans, which establishes a positive leadership image for himself.
At the end of the news release, Obama criticizes Sen. McCain by saying that he constantly repeats his no-new-taxes promise on the campaign trail, proposes a big tax hike as the solution, which would raise taxes on workers who receive health benefits. Obviously, he’s using the strategy of attacking the record of his opponent to create doubt in the electorate about McCain. His campaign team even moves one step forward by pointing out that that study is conducted by University of Michigan economist to prove that that is an authentic and subjective attack. This shows us that Obama takes the offensive position on issues that are of great concern of the public.

Who are They Really Speaking To?

While reading chapter 6, I learned a lot about the actual speaking process, and kind of realized how brave a person must be in order to run for president. Not only for having to get up and speak in front of millions of people, but for also just putting themselves out there! When it comes to running for president both Obama and McCain are trying to get all the votes they can, meaning that they have to play out to all the different "audiences." The chief function is to simply pinpoint which issues should be, or would be better off coming up in a specific area! I can only imagine how hard it must be to make sure you dont say something wrong in a certain area, because then you have the worry of losing votes all together! Public speaking is very hard for me, so no one has to worry about me running for president ever~!