Thursday, October 27, 2011
book club
different people from different states share their opinions on live calls about the book club and different issues about the politics. They just express their views and questions about things such as freedom and terrorism and things of that nature.
obama tactics
republicans feels like raising taxes and regulations and such will fix the economy while Obama and the democrats feel like creating jobs is key. There is really a big split among the two parties.
media
Twitter and how its affecting politics. politicians and candidates are now using twitter to make announcements or to get there message out to the younger generations. There are expected to be more twitter and twitter scandals as twitter had become a big resource.
link-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzjVejM5FjE
link-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzjVejM5FjE
Mr. Obama college issues
Mr. Obama is following some of his old tactics that he used for his last term, as he focuses his attention on the younger generation, mostly college students. Last term he won Denver over with the young generations votes and it seems as if he might have hope to win Denver again on this term. He uses himself as an example for students who are in debt for their college tuition. Stating that he and his wife, Michelle Obama had to deal with a big debt together equaling about $120,000 from law school. Targeting this type of group will promote and help him pass his new rules on and a quick and easy way to pay of your tuition debt. He does this with his slogan “we cant wait”, refusing to the republicans refusing to his legislative agenda.
He makes his case very appealing as he sympathizes with them and urges them to stand up to congress, express your feelings and financial crisis. His idea is to gain support for his $47 billion dollar job proposal, which will make tax cuts and spending, to be passed. Obama has been going through California, Nevada, Colorado and other states near them. These are usually Democrat safe states but Colorado and Denver are battleground states for Obama so his tactic is to focus on the Hispanic electorate and the young college population.
This tactic seems to be working, Obama appears to be very popular among the young college generation because he speaks for them. There is no other candidate who seems to give them attention and hope that Obama does. In my opinion these are just broken promises, Obama made promises to the young generation before about tuition. That of which he didn’t keep and made no effort to move in on, so why would it be any different this time around. But in my opinion he gets the attention because he’s the only hope and the only one who seems willing to try.
4500 tickets were sold to see Obama in a university that was going through a snow storm and hours of waiting in line and going through security to hear Obama speak. Obama slightly goes against congress for the issues that haven’t been resolved., the jobs that haven’t been created, and the struggle that people go though.
He points out key points in financial statues and updates within the nation. A college education is very important in life but college has also never been so expensive and for the first time college debt has become higher then credit card debt. To finish up his point the relates to the audience by informing them that he graduated college with a huge debt between him and his wife and like most of the country he did not come from a wealthy family. So he knows their struggle, their feelings and their pain. And if they want change it is there effort and part just as much as it is his. So get out there and make a difference.
He makes his case very appealing as he sympathizes with them and urges them to stand up to congress, express your feelings and financial crisis. His idea is to gain support for his $47 billion dollar job proposal, which will make tax cuts and spending, to be passed. Obama has been going through California, Nevada, Colorado and other states near them. These are usually Democrat safe states but Colorado and Denver are battleground states for Obama so his tactic is to focus on the Hispanic electorate and the young college population.
This tactic seems to be working, Obama appears to be very popular among the young college generation because he speaks for them. There is no other candidate who seems to give them attention and hope that Obama does. In my opinion these are just broken promises, Obama made promises to the young generation before about tuition. That of which he didn’t keep and made no effort to move in on, so why would it be any different this time around. But in my opinion he gets the attention because he’s the only hope and the only one who seems willing to try.
4500 tickets were sold to see Obama in a university that was going through a snow storm and hours of waiting in line and going through security to hear Obama speak. Obama slightly goes against congress for the issues that haven’t been resolved., the jobs that haven’t been created, and the struggle that people go though.
He points out key points in financial statues and updates within the nation. A college education is very important in life but college has also never been so expensive and for the first time college debt has become higher then credit card debt. To finish up his point the relates to the audience by informing them that he graduated college with a huge debt between him and his wife and like most of the country he did not come from a wealthy family. So he knows their struggle, their feelings and their pain. And if they want change it is there effort and part just as much as it is his. So get out there and make a difference.
Herman Cain progress
Herman Cain is one of the front runners, gaining a lot of support, attention and popularity, but with popularity comes a whole lot of criticism. Being the front runner makes the audience pay a lot of attention to you and everything you say and everything you do. The spotlight is on you so anything that goes wrong is pointed out and examined. Although Mr. Cain is still very popular there is starting to be a lot of second guessing and disappointment in his ideas and actions.
Mr. Cain has been contradicting himself in some of the most important issue while campaigning such as abortion and foreign policy which forced him to spend the last couple of weeks explaining himself and correcting the statements he has made. Mr. Cain is seeming to prove himself less and less by his actions, his inability to pay attention to detail and his contradictory views.
For the past couple of weeks as the heat has been put on him Mr. Cain has been spending a lot of time on his tour bus while at debates or speeches. He has been trying to stay out of the publics eye and away from the voters. While other candidates such as Romney, Perry and others are speaking to the crowd and interacting with them for support before debates and such, Cain has been hiding in his tour bus alienating himself from everyone.
Some of the people who have the opportunity to have one on one encounters with Cain, don’t have many good tings to say about him. There was a staff member who said, “do not speak to him unless you are spoken to”. To me that gives me a sense that Cain might be a little hard to handle and mean to people. That is not something that I would want in a candidate or that I think anyone else would want in a candidate to say the least.
Although Candidates are not perfect, for example Mitt Romney has had a lot of experience with elections and politics and he still makes mistakes. The difference is that Mr. Cain is a new candidate with no experience in politics, he only has his experience in his godfather pizza business, so he is getting a lot of hard critics on him, with the conclusion that he may not be ready to be the president.
Mr. Cain is also getting a bad reputation because he is unable to pay attention to detail. Cain had been missing meetings, canceling appearances in short notice and overall just forgetting important things that he has to do that will help him with the public. Some of his staff express how frustrating they feel about how hard it is to book Mr. Cain for appearances and to actually get him there, they compare it to “pulling teeth”.
One incident where Cain had was invited to speak to a crowd of about 200 people where afterwards he was supposed to meet potential Donors who would donate about $2500 to him if they liked him but Cain failed to show up.
source-http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/us/politics/as-cain-touts-management-skills-ex-aides-tell-of-chaos.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=politics
Mr. Cain has been contradicting himself in some of the most important issue while campaigning such as abortion and foreign policy which forced him to spend the last couple of weeks explaining himself and correcting the statements he has made. Mr. Cain is seeming to prove himself less and less by his actions, his inability to pay attention to detail and his contradictory views.
For the past couple of weeks as the heat has been put on him Mr. Cain has been spending a lot of time on his tour bus while at debates or speeches. He has been trying to stay out of the publics eye and away from the voters. While other candidates such as Romney, Perry and others are speaking to the crowd and interacting with them for support before debates and such, Cain has been hiding in his tour bus alienating himself from everyone.
Some of the people who have the opportunity to have one on one encounters with Cain, don’t have many good tings to say about him. There was a staff member who said, “do not speak to him unless you are spoken to”. To me that gives me a sense that Cain might be a little hard to handle and mean to people. That is not something that I would want in a candidate or that I think anyone else would want in a candidate to say the least.
Although Candidates are not perfect, for example Mitt Romney has had a lot of experience with elections and politics and he still makes mistakes. The difference is that Mr. Cain is a new candidate with no experience in politics, he only has his experience in his godfather pizza business, so he is getting a lot of hard critics on him, with the conclusion that he may not be ready to be the president.
Mr. Cain is also getting a bad reputation because he is unable to pay attention to detail. Cain had been missing meetings, canceling appearances in short notice and overall just forgetting important things that he has to do that will help him with the public. Some of his staff express how frustrating they feel about how hard it is to book Mr. Cain for appearances and to actually get him there, they compare it to “pulling teeth”.
One incident where Cain had was invited to speak to a crowd of about 200 people where afterwards he was supposed to meet potential Donors who would donate about $2500 to him if they liked him but Cain failed to show up.
source-http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/us/politics/as-cain-touts-management-skills-ex-aides-tell-of-chaos.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=politics
Sunday, October 23, 2011
abortion
The republican candidates battled it out as they raised of the issue off abortion in Iowa last Saturday. Perry simply said “being pro-life is not a matter of campaign convenience, it is a core conviction.” Perry gained a lot of support as he dwelled on the issue that abortion shouldn’t be legal. He feels that if you are pro-life then you should agree with him and fight against the issue. You aren’t pro-life if you think that it is a issue for the person to decide whether or not they want to keep the unborn baby. Which turned into a direct jab at republican candidate Herman Cain. Herman Cain stated that he was pro-life but that abortion should be a personal decision for that person and their family. Perry stated that if you agreed with Herman Cain that you are not pro-life, you just want to have you cake and eat it to. Mr. Cain raised a lot of heat, questions, and come backs from the other republican candidates after he said that the government doesn’t really have the right to stick their nose in abortion issues. But Herman Cain is trying to smooth over his statement as he says that if he becomes president that he will put more force and strengthen the current laws to prevent abortion, he says that abortion should be illegal throughout the nation. Not only did it stir up some controversy between the other republican candidates but his supporters were anxious to hear him speak about the issue and explain what his views are In more detail. On Saturday Mr. Cain didn’t really try to put himself out there as he stayed on his campaign bus and only presented himself when it was time for him to speak. Right after he spoke he went to his bus and alienated himself from everyone. Michelle Bachmann who hasn’t been in the spotlight or even barley seen in the eye of any supporter or candidate used this to her advantage to bring her opponent down. Mr. Cain has overshadowed her ever since he became popular in the past couple weeks. Michelle Bachmann asked the pubic to reconsider their choice and take a good look at their political background. Abortion should never be ok and pushed to be legal so if Mr. Cain is a supporter then why should he be the next president. Mrs. Bachmann persuaded the people to think wisely as she states, “this is the year when social conservatives can have it all, this is our year where we don’t compromise. This is our year when we don’t settle.” Not only did Michelle Bachmann speak up but Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul all urged the public to be careful who they were siding with. Mr. Santorum indirectly going against Herman Cain by telling the public to be careful with who they trust, are they standing up for the fights and battles we are all fighting for. And last but not least reminded the people of Iowa about their support on the ban against partial-birth abortions that he is trying to pass.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Mexicos drug trafficing
Examine the threats of Mexico's drug trade on our boarder. how much crime is spilling over to our boarders. There is less crime on these boarders then there is in other states. FBI statistics don't reflect the actual crime rate because there are many Mexicans who refuse to testify from fear.
regulations on hospitals
US is cutting back on regulations on hospitals. Robert Pair thinks that it will be easier and more beneficial to the economy if we used advanced nurse practitioners and nurse assistance instead of using higher paid physicians.
Wall street and Obama
Obama expresses how he feels about the Wall Street Protest saying that he understands the reason and sympathies with them. Saying that he believes people don't feel like they are a part of the government or that the government doesnt care or looks out for them. He believes the Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party aren't that different.
Wall Street
There have been many public protests against Wall Street and the heat is on for the republicans to start addressing this issue. Since this is becoming such a big issue this could very well mold the outcome in November. Occupy Wall Street has been around but is getting more and more popular now in America and Europe. It has been Bringing about more protest and causing more attention which is attracting more participants. It is becoming clear that this is a matter which needs to be addressed and the republicans have to be careful when they do address it.
President Obama has sympathized and has jumped to the needs of the supporters. With their cries of frustration and demand for the wealthy to pay more taxes the democrats are trying to level with them. It is being questioned on whether this all a part of the democrats’ plan or if the democrats are fueling up the protestors to ask for more taxes on the wealthy. Wall Street is the largest financial base in the world and although it does have its flaws some people believe that they should still preserve all of its strength and success.
Not too long after taking office did Obama make a comment to the Bankers saying that he was the only thing in the middle or them and the people with the “pitch forks”. But recently it looks like Obama himself may have grabbed a “pitch fork”. Not sure of the consequence or benefit that may come out of this for the election, but apparently Obama believes that it will help them in 2012.
But as for the republicans, we are waiting to hear what they have to say in response to all of this. Some hope and believe that the protestors would quite down and stop because they don’t have a real reason or organized agenda to continue with this. A big issue that they have raised that will be hard to ignore even if they stop protesting is the gap between the 1% and the 99%. This problem has been raised a long time ago when the big recession had first started.
As of now many Americans feel angry and hopeless with the thought that their children will be worse off than they are. A time magazine poll shows that 54% to 23% approve of the Wall Street protest. And opinion about the tea party is now 33% negative and 27% positive.
Newt Gingwich expressed his sympathy towards the protestors, who are truly suffering. Other republicans have failed to do such and seem to maybe believe that this gap and those suffering isn’t a big deal. In reality no republican is going to want to raise the taxes on the rich but they would like to raise it on everyone else. Like Reagan and Clinton were able to help close the gap by helping to raise the income of people willing to work small wages. Every American wants to live in America being able to achieve the most that they come and have opportunities. So as much as this is an economic issue it also falls into a moral issue.
President Obama has sympathized and has jumped to the needs of the supporters. With their cries of frustration and demand for the wealthy to pay more taxes the democrats are trying to level with them. It is being questioned on whether this all a part of the democrats’ plan or if the democrats are fueling up the protestors to ask for more taxes on the wealthy. Wall Street is the largest financial base in the world and although it does have its flaws some people believe that they should still preserve all of its strength and success.
Not too long after taking office did Obama make a comment to the Bankers saying that he was the only thing in the middle or them and the people with the “pitch forks”. But recently it looks like Obama himself may have grabbed a “pitch fork”. Not sure of the consequence or benefit that may come out of this for the election, but apparently Obama believes that it will help them in 2012.
But as for the republicans, we are waiting to hear what they have to say in response to all of this. Some hope and believe that the protestors would quite down and stop because they don’t have a real reason or organized agenda to continue with this. A big issue that they have raised that will be hard to ignore even if they stop protesting is the gap between the 1% and the 99%. This problem has been raised a long time ago when the big recession had first started.
As of now many Americans feel angry and hopeless with the thought that their children will be worse off than they are. A time magazine poll shows that 54% to 23% approve of the Wall Street protest. And opinion about the tea party is now 33% negative and 27% positive.
Newt Gingwich expressed his sympathy towards the protestors, who are truly suffering. Other republicans have failed to do such and seem to maybe believe that this gap and those suffering isn’t a big deal. In reality no republican is going to want to raise the taxes on the rich but they would like to raise it on everyone else. Like Reagan and Clinton were able to help close the gap by helping to raise the income of people willing to work small wages. Every American wants to live in America being able to achieve the most that they come and have opportunities. So as much as this is an economic issue it also falls into a moral issue.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
homeland secuirty
the issue of insuring homeland security is discussed. we have to elect the right people to make these decisions because we will fail if we choose the wrong people to make these decisions and do the right thing. we have to make sure they are well qualified.
florida part 2
The financial problems are discussed, in terms of presidential campaign fund raising and the taxes that are put onto the ordinary American individual. Lenny shows a break down of the percents of the candidates in Florida.
florida
Lenny Curry talks about how Florida will play a major role in the primary. Republicans in Florida is represents what can be the outcome of an entire election. Florida is very diverse.
figures
Obama and Romney are in a fight to reach the top. As Obama being the only candidate running for the Democratic nomination and Romney being one of the top candidates in the running or the republican nomination. Romney is looking as if he is doing better then Obama. Romney has raised more campaign money. Romney has been impressing many of these firm and donators so that they would fund him instead of Mr. Obama. Since the spring Romney has raised over $1.5 million from employees and firms of certain companies. Obama on the other hand has only raised about $270,000, and this money has been coming mostly from the same supporters and firms that donated to him in 2008.
Aside from firm raising Obama has raised far more then Romney or any other candidate in the running. Obama has raised over $100 million and $65 million for the democratic national committee.
Romney has raised so much money from his belief that wall street should be able to write its own rules removing the wall street reform.
The president has put in protections to ensure that history wont repeat itself financially. Romney has to stop putting of the impressions that he defends an economy who has ruined so many financial issues. And has now raised this financial crisis in which seems very had to get out of.
To some people and Romney supporters, not many people are going to vote Obama back into the presidency because of the current state of the economy and his failure to create more jobs.
Obama just recruited about 100 bundlers for the last three months. Among those 100 bundlers here were a few, Hilary Clinton, John E. Frank, Amy Friedkin. Each of who raised a significant amount of money for the presidential campaign.
Romney is expected to receive a hard running with his opponent Rick Perry who raised over $17 million in the last three months. Most of which was raised by Texas. Romney raise about $14 million, most of which came from California. Ron Paul raised about $8.3 million. Herman Cain raised about $2.8 million, which broke down to about $200 from each fund raiser. Michele Bachmann raise about $4 million and spent $6 million which left to have about $1.3.
The other candidates are all far behind. Rick Santorum raised $704,000 and ended up having $229,114 left. Jon M Huntsman Jr. ha raised $327,000 and now is over twice in debt of that amount. Newt Grigrich raised $808,000, ending up with $353,417. Even though Obama is at the top right now with the fund raising, although unlikely he could fall behind if Romney or Perry really start to gain popularity. And just be reading these figures it doesn’t determine who will win the race but it does give us a little idea of who are the top runners at this point.
Aside from firm raising Obama has raised far more then Romney or any other candidate in the running. Obama has raised over $100 million and $65 million for the democratic national committee.
Romney has raised so much money from his belief that wall street should be able to write its own rules removing the wall street reform.
The president has put in protections to ensure that history wont repeat itself financially. Romney has to stop putting of the impressions that he defends an economy who has ruined so many financial issues. And has now raised this financial crisis in which seems very had to get out of.
To some people and Romney supporters, not many people are going to vote Obama back into the presidency because of the current state of the economy and his failure to create more jobs.
Obama just recruited about 100 bundlers for the last three months. Among those 100 bundlers here were a few, Hilary Clinton, John E. Frank, Amy Friedkin. Each of who raised a significant amount of money for the presidential campaign.
Romney is expected to receive a hard running with his opponent Rick Perry who raised over $17 million in the last three months. Most of which was raised by Texas. Romney raise about $14 million, most of which came from California. Ron Paul raised about $8.3 million. Herman Cain raised about $2.8 million, which broke down to about $200 from each fund raiser. Michele Bachmann raise about $4 million and spent $6 million which left to have about $1.3.
The other candidates are all far behind. Rick Santorum raised $704,000 and ended up having $229,114 left. Jon M Huntsman Jr. ha raised $327,000 and now is over twice in debt of that amount. Newt Grigrich raised $808,000, ending up with $353,417. Even though Obama is at the top right now with the fund raising, although unlikely he could fall behind if Romney or Perry really start to gain popularity. And just be reading these figures it doesn’t determine who will win the race but it does give us a little idea of who are the top runners at this point.
Jon M Huntsman Sr
Jon M Huntsman Sr. shares his ideas on how the wealthy can financially help and start contributing to the country. Huntsman Sr. feels like the wealthy people haven’t really given anything so he feels like the should give 80%. The occupy wall street protesters gather and camp out because of this very reason. These protestors feel as if the wealthy are greedy. Huntsman create the multinational Huntsman corporation which started in the 1970‘s. The Huntsman corporation a chemical base company which holds most of their business overseas. Mr. Huntsman empathizes with the protestors and feels like politics isn’t functioning as it should.
The democrats would like to push for the millionaires to start paying surtax. Mr. Huntsman believes that if the wealthy start to pay more tax that it could be the beginning to start fixing things and to start helping the economy get back on track.
There are many billionaires who are active but they aren’t active in out country. Billionaires such as Bill Gates and Mr. Buffet. The are active around the world fighting to help things like malaria and aids. Mr. Huntsman is focused with issues close to home. For example he is now working very hard on building the most distinguished cancer treatment an research center in Utah. These issues are important to him because he and his family were affected by cancer. Being that his father, mother, and stepmother all dies from cancer and he had a couple battles of skin cancer himself. He has spent most of his life on trying to help and fight these diseases. There are about 1200 billionaires in America and Mr. Huntsman is one of 19 of the wealthiest men to give away more then a billion dollars.
Huntsman has worked with for the presidential candidate Mr. Romney in the past and states that he has worked for three different versions of him. Romney was a liberal when was running to be a senate in Massachusetts, then he was a moderate when he ran for governor in 2002, and now he is a conservative running for president.
Huntsman does his work and donating for results not just for tax deductions as some of the wealthy do. Not only is he trying to help treat these diseases but he’s also wants to make help the way these people think and feel when they step into his research center. He will make decoration touch ups to make them feel as if the weren’t even in a center for cancer.
Interestingly the huntsman center links to Mormon religion because of Utah’s history. And Huntsman was leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “The database has already led scientists here to discover genes linked to inherited forms of melanoma breast and colon cancer, as well as ovarian cancer and some head and neck cancers that appear to have hereditary patterns.”
The democrats would like to push for the millionaires to start paying surtax. Mr. Huntsman believes that if the wealthy start to pay more tax that it could be the beginning to start fixing things and to start helping the economy get back on track.
There are many billionaires who are active but they aren’t active in out country. Billionaires such as Bill Gates and Mr. Buffet. The are active around the world fighting to help things like malaria and aids. Mr. Huntsman is focused with issues close to home. For example he is now working very hard on building the most distinguished cancer treatment an research center in Utah. These issues are important to him because he and his family were affected by cancer. Being that his father, mother, and stepmother all dies from cancer and he had a couple battles of skin cancer himself. He has spent most of his life on trying to help and fight these diseases. There are about 1200 billionaires in America and Mr. Huntsman is one of 19 of the wealthiest men to give away more then a billion dollars.
Huntsman has worked with for the presidential candidate Mr. Romney in the past and states that he has worked for three different versions of him. Romney was a liberal when was running to be a senate in Massachusetts, then he was a moderate when he ran for governor in 2002, and now he is a conservative running for president.
Huntsman does his work and donating for results not just for tax deductions as some of the wealthy do. Not only is he trying to help treat these diseases but he’s also wants to make help the way these people think and feel when they step into his research center. He will make decoration touch ups to make them feel as if the weren’t even in a center for cancer.
Interestingly the huntsman center links to Mormon religion because of Utah’s history. And Huntsman was leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “The database has already led scientists here to discover genes linked to inherited forms of melanoma breast and colon cancer, as well as ovarian cancer and some head and neck cancers that appear to have hereditary patterns.”
Sunday, October 9, 2011
immigration/proportion
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/47842-1 -couldnt emmbed
proportion votes bring up third party votes. the immigration system is broken people are coming into the united states and if u get a degree from here we send u back so u can compete with us.
proportion votes bring up third party votes. the immigration system is broken people are coming into the united states and if u get a degree from here we send u back so u can compete with us.
the constitution
finding out what the constitution is and what it means word by word. the constitution is all about values. we should follow the values and apply it appropriately.
division of power
there is a division of power. contradictions of power. Americans need to appreciate the division and understand it.
Herman Cain
The election of 2012 has begun to pick up, becoming more competitive, the real competitors coming into view, and already popular candidates among the people. With that being said there is one candidate who has been rising into view. And that one candidate is Herman Cain. He’s bringing about some attention and sharing his views with the public, and its safe to say that a lot of people like him. Some of his admirable qualities include him being a business man, he can run a business and he knows about job demands, and he is a straight talker.
In a poll focusing on the GOP race exhibit Mitt Romney with 20% supporters, Herman Cain with 17% supporters, and Rick Perry with 15% supporters. Herman Cain has been gaining supporters while Rick Perry has been losing supporters.
On the run down Romney came to the light as the front runner in the beginning of the race. Michelle Bachmann was also an early favorite, as soon as she broadcasted that she would be running for president in a debate she rushed into second place in the polls. Soon after Rick Perry entered into the race. Perry was popular for a while and then lost some of his supporters on the way.
As for Cain his rise started after a shocking win in the Florida GOP straw vote. Many of the straw poll voters admitted to the fact that they came into the debate read to vote for Perry but after her dropped the ball in that debate they switched their vote to Cain.
As for Cain’s background, he unlike any other candidate. Cain has no political history but he stands for the average hardworking American which many Americans could relate to. He was a CEO in Godfathers pizza, He attended and graduated college mastering computer science. A unique fact about Cain is that he was a stage 4 cancer survivor, so he is very involve in health care.
Cain has released his very own book this Monday called “This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House". Cain has also came up with this plan called the 9-9-9 plan which is meant to reform the tax code. “The plan calls for a 9% federal income tax, a 9% federal corporate tax, and the creation of a new 9% national sales tax.”
Cain is cementing himself into the election just as Romney has. Although there’s is a attractiveness about Cain being a job creator there is also some doubts and worries about whether he’s ready to be a president. Cain still has a lot to prove and a lot to show as he just becoming more popular. He has to try to hold his position and explain himself and his beliefs more. There is still a lot to prove and he will be battling many new issues as he goes along. It is anticipated when approached against Obama he will had to battle the issue of race and things of that nature.
In a poll focusing on the GOP race exhibit Mitt Romney with 20% supporters, Herman Cain with 17% supporters, and Rick Perry with 15% supporters. Herman Cain has been gaining supporters while Rick Perry has been losing supporters.
On the run down Romney came to the light as the front runner in the beginning of the race. Michelle Bachmann was also an early favorite, as soon as she broadcasted that she would be running for president in a debate she rushed into second place in the polls. Soon after Rick Perry entered into the race. Perry was popular for a while and then lost some of his supporters on the way.
As for Cain his rise started after a shocking win in the Florida GOP straw vote. Many of the straw poll voters admitted to the fact that they came into the debate read to vote for Perry but after her dropped the ball in that debate they switched their vote to Cain.
As for Cain’s background, he unlike any other candidate. Cain has no political history but he stands for the average hardworking American which many Americans could relate to. He was a CEO in Godfathers pizza, He attended and graduated college mastering computer science. A unique fact about Cain is that he was a stage 4 cancer survivor, so he is very involve in health care.
Cain has released his very own book this Monday called “This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House". Cain has also came up with this plan called the 9-9-9 plan which is meant to reform the tax code. “The plan calls for a 9% federal income tax, a 9% federal corporate tax, and the creation of a new 9% national sales tax.”
Cain is cementing himself into the election just as Romney has. Although there’s is a attractiveness about Cain being a job creator there is also some doubts and worries about whether he’s ready to be a president. Cain still has a lot to prove and a lot to show as he just becoming more popular. He has to try to hold his position and explain himself and his beliefs more. There is still a lot to prove and he will be battling many new issues as he goes along. It is anticipated when approached against Obama he will had to battle the issue of race and things of that nature.
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney of the republican contenders has reassured America that he is in fact a part of the Mormon religion. Romney is scheduled to make a speech on Thursday at college station in Texas. Romney understands that faith and religion is a big part of America’s tradition and he plans on sharing his views and religion to America. Although there is no legal law holding a candidate back from running for president, there are many firm standing republican Christians who are a big part of the election process and the GOP. Romney is trying to point out significant similarities between Mormonism and Catholicism such as the disproval of same sex marriage and abortion.
In a CNN opinion research corp. it was found that about 50% of Americans consider Mormonism to be the same as Christianity, while 41% disagreed. 19% are unlikely to vote for a candidate of Mormon belief while 17% don’t believe that Mormon faith would be an issue or a deciding factor in their vote.
On Friday a pastor from Texas shared some combative views his audience.
The pastor named Robert Jeffress shared to the reporters that no republicans should vote for Mitt Romney. The pastor urges republican voters to side with Rick Perry. The pastor discourages anyone to vote for Mitt Romney for the simple fact that he’s a Mormon, “and described the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a ‘cult.".
Michael Purdy, a announcer for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints, did not comment back to Robert Jeffress controversial comment but he did say "But those who want to understand the centrality of Christ to our faith can learn more about us and what we believe by going to mormon.org,"
Mitt Romney has unfortunately pushed away some of his potential voters by sharing his Mormon faith with America. There are some people who believe that Romney is a well rounded man with good values and morals but aren’t happy with his Mormon faith. These potential supporters are now leaning towards Rick Perry for the republican nomination. For supporters like this religion is a big deciding factor of their vote. They will only choose a firm Christian follower. In the same manner, the Southern Baptist Convention branded Mormonism as a “cult”. The Southern Baptist Convention have their own website in which they listed Mormonism under the “New Religions and Cults” tab.
Rick Perry on the other hand expresses that he does not believe that Mormonism is a cult. He doesn’t agree with some of the views and criticism that some of his supporters do.
During the election Mitt Romney hasn’t hid his religion but he certainly hasn’t been very open to talk about it until recently. In plain view Mormonism is like Christianity but Mormonism has gotten a bad reputation because of their past polygamy beliefs. Polygamy is a concept which stands for a marriage with multiple partners. In fact today polygamy isn’t practiced as much as they use to practice it of not at all.
In a CNN opinion research corp. it was found that about 50% of Americans consider Mormonism to be the same as Christianity, while 41% disagreed. 19% are unlikely to vote for a candidate of Mormon belief while 17% don’t believe that Mormon faith would be an issue or a deciding factor in their vote.
On Friday a pastor from Texas shared some combative views his audience.
The pastor named Robert Jeffress shared to the reporters that no republicans should vote for Mitt Romney. The pastor urges republican voters to side with Rick Perry. The pastor discourages anyone to vote for Mitt Romney for the simple fact that he’s a Mormon, “and described the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a ‘cult.".
Michael Purdy, a announcer for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints, did not comment back to Robert Jeffress controversial comment but he did say "But those who want to understand the centrality of Christ to our faith can learn more about us and what we believe by going to mormon.org,"
Mitt Romney has unfortunately pushed away some of his potential voters by sharing his Mormon faith with America. There are some people who believe that Romney is a well rounded man with good values and morals but aren’t happy with his Mormon faith. These potential supporters are now leaning towards Rick Perry for the republican nomination. For supporters like this religion is a big deciding factor of their vote. They will only choose a firm Christian follower. In the same manner, the Southern Baptist Convention branded Mormonism as a “cult”. The Southern Baptist Convention have their own website in which they listed Mormonism under the “New Religions and Cults” tab.
Rick Perry on the other hand expresses that he does not believe that Mormonism is a cult. He doesn’t agree with some of the views and criticism that some of his supporters do.
During the election Mitt Romney hasn’t hid his religion but he certainly hasn’t been very open to talk about it until recently. In plain view Mormonism is like Christianity but Mormonism has gotten a bad reputation because of their past polygamy beliefs. Polygamy is a concept which stands for a marriage with multiple partners. In fact today polygamy isn’t practiced as much as they use to practice it of not at all.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
week 3
Kaine talks about the mid term plan. The race is more uphill this year because people are in bad shape and want to see change. He believes that he will exceed in his plan. Want to reach out in health insurance issues, Effort to engage first time voters
Brent Wilkes is on the league of Untied Latin Americans and he speaks about how Latinos aren’t active enough and the reasons. Immigrants don’t make themselves seen by the authorities. But they should be voting and most don’t because unless they eel they absolutely have to because most o them are illegal immigrants.
importance of latino voters
Latinos are being pushed to vote. They are not to enthusiastic as they were before 2008. They can be a swing vote. 58% are more enthusiastic about voting. Hispanics can make a difference. Have the potential to be the deciding factor in these elections.
obama stands up for the gay soldiers week 3
As the presidential elections approach, President Obama has to think of ways to convince the people of the United States to re-instate him for another term as president. One of the ways that Obama has decided to go about this, is to remind the people of his big political change in the gay community. One of the presidents goals for this upcoming election is to encourage the entire gay community to be on his side during the voting process by reminding these people of the great positive impact he made on their lives by passing the bill for gay and lesbian marriages. This article even goes as far as too become reminiscent of a time when a gay soldier from Iraq was booed off of stage by politician; however, Obama uses this incident of childishness to his defense in supporting the gay soldiers and not judging people that are willing to fight for their country. The gay community in New York should be thankful to Obama in his attempt to support and recognize the gay community in a way that other politicians and people have not done in the past and even still in the present. In a way, president Obama is technically saying that the way that the gay community should pay him back for passing the gay marriage law is by voting for him in the next election to give him another term in presidency. Obama is also finding ways to push the gay community away from supporting any other politicians by recognizing the incident in which a gay soldier was booed off of the stage; therefore, pushing people to see Obama in a good light by not being judgmental of these gay soldiers. Soldiers are people that are brave enough to fight and are willing to sacrifice their lives for the stake of our country. Someone who is putting their life at risk in the name of their country should not be penalized in society because of sexual orientation, someone who is putting their live on the risk for our country should be respected for who they are, gay or straight. Obama is obviously aware of this argument and uses it to his advantage as a way to lean over to his side in the election process. The president was smart to come up with a political stand such as this to encourage a larger amount of votes on his side for the upcoming election. Obama is well aware that his chances at becoming president for a second term in presidency might not be looking up to par which is why he is deciding to use a topic like this as a way to earn more votes. People in the gay community and people that support the gay community will most likely feed into this argument and be willing to be on the side of president Obama throughout the election for this term. As it looks as though Obama is winning the hearts over of the gay community for the up coming election, now what he has to look to are ways to win over the other percentage of the population in which do not support Obamas’ support in the gay community.
Sarah Palin week 3
Sarah Palin is an interesting character in politics. It may seem like she just hopped from a housewife into running or president but Palin has actually been in politics for sometime now. She put her foot in the door in 1992 when she won the first two terms in the Wisilla city council. Following by winning the first two terms as Wisilla's mayor in 1996. She then went on to win the governorship of Alaska in 2006. Through out all of this Palin simply explained it as following gods plan. She stated that "my life is in gods hands". She says that god started talking to her about going into politics and that's how it started. Through the eyes of Joe Mcginniss she is the "Christ-drunk Paris Hilton of politics", Mcginniss believes that she should stay on her in Wisilla and leave the presidential elections alone. Many people believe that she just likes to put on a show and stay in the light of politics. Mcginniss mentions how certain people describe her time in office, they say that it was “nothing short of a reign of terror” and they fear that the "vicious and vengeful” Palin can still punish her critics, even though she holds no political office today." In her time she has fired many city employees, pushed out certain government employers whom she disliked, harassed the library bookkeepers about holding gay content books, and pushed for officials to fire her brother in law from the police force. She pretty much bullied her way through Wasilla. Personally there are a couple of unnamed sources who say that Palin has severe mood swings, have partaken in cocaine, her marriage is dull and barely even a marriage, he husband Todd takes care of this children. There is also talk about Palin potentially being a racist in some form. In 1987 Palin had sexual activity with a basketball star named Glen Rice. He states that she was very nice and had a crush on her for a while after as they used to keep in touch but another source says that Palin had a major freakout after the incident and was crying hysterically because she had sex with a "black man"
Palin remains unsure on whether or not to join the 2011 presidential elections, although she is very confident that she will win. "she believes Americans are 'desperate' and 'deserving' of 'positive change." She states that she doesn't believe that she is the only person or the job or the only person that can achieve this but she does think that she can win the election. She is relying on her family to help her make a decision because if they think that she shouldn't then she will stay out of the election. She does however have support from her husband Todd.
Palin remains unsure on whether or not to join the 2011 presidential elections, although she is very confident that she will win. "she believes Americans are 'desperate' and 'deserving' of 'positive change." She states that she doesn't believe that she is the only person or the job or the only person that can achieve this but she does think that she can win the election. She is relying on her family to help her make a decision because if they think that she shouldn't then she will stay out of the election. She does however have support from her husband Todd.
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