Newt Gingrich is suddenly climbing in the polls. Up until now he has either been in the dark during the election or having negative things said about him. He has been criticized and doubted because of his past impressions and the 2 divorces he had. Another thing that makes him unpopular is his past with Bill Clinton. More recently he is being criticized for spending money on his wife. They say that he has spent thousands of dollars on her in Tiffany’s. Gingrich lost about 15 supporters who claim that he would rather spend time with his wife then campaign and put his all into his career.
As of recently Gingrich is starting to rise in popularity. He is getting closer and closer to being the front runner, as he is now standing next to Herman Cain and Mitt Romney. He is now raisin money and is overall doing a good job in getting more supporters and money donated to his campaign. It is a strong possibility that he could take the lead in this campaign, he is drastically changing his impressions on the public.
Although he was in a really bad position in June and July, he never gave up or dropped out. He stuck it out and now it is paying off for him. Some don’t buy it and think that his tone of voice is mean and intimidating. But close friends of his such as Rick Taylor, who says that he has an Authoritative assertiveness that could give off the wrong impression. He isn’t mean but some people could take his attitude and comments as being mean. He is very talented at making others feel small and foolish, by saying the right words in a certain tone but he doesn’t mean to be mean.
I’m not sure what he has done to make this sudden change in the public and their hearts but he definitely changed the election as of now. Or maybe the public is just starting to listen to him. His views and tactics are now being recognized and he is coming to the eye of the election. I feel like Gingrich is the last hope for the public. None of these candidates would make for a good president. At least for the front runners because they all have qualities that are undesirable. For example Mr. Cain is nuts, his views and political knowledge are very ignorant and Mitt Romney is a flip flopper. Romney doesn’t know what he believes in, doesn’t know which party he stands for and for someone like that to be president will be bad because he will flip flop on the important issues and actions that the government will lead our country to.
Overall Gingrich is standing out, he came up tied with Mitt Romney for second place with Herman Cain in first place in the CBS news poll for republican primary votes. I feel that he should all listen up and figure out who will be the better president in the long run.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Perry's brain freeze
On Wednesday Perry had an epic brain freeze during a debate. He embarrassingly stood there dumbfounded as he searched his brain from name of the department of energy which he has been talking about that should be eliminated. His expression told it all as he stood there with a look of pain as he stumbled and started over and attempted to change the subject. He just couldn’t find the words that he was looking for.
Nobody knows how this will effect his campaign but luckily he is not the only one to have this happen to him. More embarrassing then that Christina Aguilera forgot the words to the national anthem as she sang in front of thousands and thousands for the super bowl. And what about chief justice John G. Roberts junior who misplaced a word during his oath at the swearing-in ceremony for President Barack Obama. This embarrassing mistake forced to redo the oath the next day.
It is only to remind us that this is natural for everyone and that these things happen to all of us everyday. It doesn’t have to be forgetting a word or a idea in front of an audience but the simplest task of forgetting what you walked into a room for. It is more likely to happen when we obtain new information or never really used, and we are forced to depend on our brain to try and remember what it is were searching for. But when there is something significantly important to us such as a childbirth or a birthday we have no problem remembering every single detail.
A good comparison to our memory and what it remembers is that of a library card in a library. When we remember things well its as if our medial temporal acts like a library card catalog system, which will point him to the right locations in the brain where the memory is stored. But when there is a brain freeze or unable to remember something its as if the card looked in the wrong place or as if we have the wrong card.
Perry could have been interrupted after he glanced at Ron Paul and got distracted which probably set his mind on a different track. This also may have set him off into his next point to quickly without yet finishing the question on hand. More simply he could have just had a lot of stress placed on him and his mind is to jumbled up with worries and expectations. Our memory is filled with way to many things and it is easy to forget some of the information that we try to pack into it. Its almost as if it’s a parking lot with hundreds of cars and forgetting where it was you parked.
According to Tom Eichele, a neurophysiologist and adjunct professor of biological and medical psychology, points out that are brain gets lazy sometimes because it thinks it knows what’s going to happen next. There should really be no reason why Perry should have any negative feedback due to this unfortunate experience. It just reminds us that they are not robots, they are human as well and they can have slip ups every now and then just as I’m sure each and every one of us have experienced ourselves.
Nobody knows how this will effect his campaign but luckily he is not the only one to have this happen to him. More embarrassing then that Christina Aguilera forgot the words to the national anthem as she sang in front of thousands and thousands for the super bowl. And what about chief justice John G. Roberts junior who misplaced a word during his oath at the swearing-in ceremony for President Barack Obama. This embarrassing mistake forced to redo the oath the next day.
It is only to remind us that this is natural for everyone and that these things happen to all of us everyday. It doesn’t have to be forgetting a word or a idea in front of an audience but the simplest task of forgetting what you walked into a room for. It is more likely to happen when we obtain new information or never really used, and we are forced to depend on our brain to try and remember what it is were searching for. But when there is something significantly important to us such as a childbirth or a birthday we have no problem remembering every single detail.
A good comparison to our memory and what it remembers is that of a library card in a library. When we remember things well its as if our medial temporal acts like a library card catalog system, which will point him to the right locations in the brain where the memory is stored. But when there is a brain freeze or unable to remember something its as if the card looked in the wrong place or as if we have the wrong card.
Perry could have been interrupted after he glanced at Ron Paul and got distracted which probably set his mind on a different track. This also may have set him off into his next point to quickly without yet finishing the question on hand. More simply he could have just had a lot of stress placed on him and his mind is to jumbled up with worries and expectations. Our memory is filled with way to many things and it is easy to forget some of the information that we try to pack into it. Its almost as if it’s a parking lot with hundreds of cars and forgetting where it was you parked.
According to Tom Eichele, a neurophysiologist and adjunct professor of biological and medical psychology, points out that are brain gets lazy sometimes because it thinks it knows what’s going to happen next. There should really be no reason why Perry should have any negative feedback due to this unfortunate experience. It just reminds us that they are not robots, they are human as well and they can have slip ups every now and then just as I’m sure each and every one of us have experienced ourselves.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
social media part 2
In this clip you can see the footage that was secretly taped as he speaks about it. He talks about how the organization Acorn has been shut down and displaying them as a bad organization. The strategy to play the footage as he talks about the organization is a good touch because the footage displays what he is saying and how the media today normally appeals to the public with their views.
media today
Here is a man who works with a company who has main goals to expose fraud, dishonesty, and wrong doing in private and public organizations and companies. They do this by placing secret cameras, and going undercover to find these things. This is a good tactic because the social media has become so important so he is able to expose them with the hope and expectations that many people will find out about it.
new social media
This an example of how the media used fun music and fast paced video that demonstrates what what there narrating to us. As well as you can see how they present Tim Phillips to everyone as he makes his way to the stage.
Romney fund raisers
Although Mitt Romney has mixed feelings with the public and what he stands for there s no denying that Romney in devoted to helping and donating to fundraisers. Romney has participated to numerous people are an organization, he has also showed up and even spoke in Lake County Federation dinner in Illinois. He has attended events such as the New Hampshire Seacoast Republican Woman’s annual Chili Fest and the grand opening of a suburban Las Vegas Campaign office. He has donated thousands of dollars in the past coupe of weeks to the republicans who ran for office of legislature.
Romney appears at every main fund raising event that he has says he will. Romney will show p early and leave later then he was supposed, this shows his devotion to these causes. He is pleasant company to have around and truly involves himself and interacts with the people around him. And to his benefit many of these people who he has worked with and helped out have returned him the favor by donating money in return. Although Romney had helped many people and organizations, there are many who still doubt his views and wont support him in his this race.
Romney is still appreciated by all of them and it is recognized that he has spent more money on fundraisers and helping lawmakers campaign then he did in 2008. On the bright side Romney has big organizations donating money to him such as Commonwealth PAC and free and strong standing America PAC have donated about $400,000 to about 300 local elected officials and organizations. Romney has donated a lot of money to states and such the biggest being New Hampshire but he is being accused of using this money inappropriately because he is sing it on things outside of the restrictions for his campaign.
Romney had donated around $1,000 to each republican candidate for senate and to the state organizations. In total he has spent around $100,000 in New Hampshire alone. When Mr. Romney believes in someone he puts his all into it. Mr. Romney has donated a lot of money into Nikki R Haley from South Carolina. Even when Haley repaired the Republican nomination, Romney put together a meet and greet with some donors for Haley. While Haley was being overwhelmed with money that Romney’s campaign was sending her.
Although it may not make a difference to some individuals who cold potentially donate to his election campaign it definitely affects most of the people who he has funded in the past. Romney has been donating for years and it only makes him seem like a better person who supports and is involved with the issues of this country, Small or big.
Some people will like Romney and favor him over the other republican candidates because he is involved and this is a quality that is very important especially in the election. I personally feel a different way towards him now that I know this about him because it makes me feel like he actually cares and might try to make a difference in the things that matter, unlike the other candidates who haven’t really done anything to help these states.
Romney appears at every main fund raising event that he has says he will. Romney will show p early and leave later then he was supposed, this shows his devotion to these causes. He is pleasant company to have around and truly involves himself and interacts with the people around him. And to his benefit many of these people who he has worked with and helped out have returned him the favor by donating money in return. Although Romney had helped many people and organizations, there are many who still doubt his views and wont support him in his this race.
Romney is still appreciated by all of them and it is recognized that he has spent more money on fundraisers and helping lawmakers campaign then he did in 2008. On the bright side Romney has big organizations donating money to him such as Commonwealth PAC and free and strong standing America PAC have donated about $400,000 to about 300 local elected officials and organizations. Romney has donated a lot of money to states and such the biggest being New Hampshire but he is being accused of using this money inappropriately because he is sing it on things outside of the restrictions for his campaign.
Romney had donated around $1,000 to each republican candidate for senate and to the state organizations. In total he has spent around $100,000 in New Hampshire alone. When Mr. Romney believes in someone he puts his all into it. Mr. Romney has donated a lot of money into Nikki R Haley from South Carolina. Even when Haley repaired the Republican nomination, Romney put together a meet and greet with some donors for Haley. While Haley was being overwhelmed with money that Romney’s campaign was sending her.
Although it may not make a difference to some individuals who cold potentially donate to his election campaign it definitely affects most of the people who he has funded in the past. Romney has been donating for years and it only makes him seem like a better person who supports and is involved with the issues of this country, Small or big.
Some people will like Romney and favor him over the other republican candidates because he is involved and this is a quality that is very important especially in the election. I personally feel a different way towards him now that I know this about him because it makes me feel like he actually cares and might try to make a difference in the things that matter, unlike the other candidates who haven’t really done anything to help these states.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Herman Cain sexual harassment
So again Herman Cain is on the spotlight of politics and the election and again for something bad. But this is by far the worst public media and news yet for any candidate. Mr. Cain seems to have nothing but negative surrounding his campaign; I wonder will we ever see something good about him. This time Mr. Cain is being accused of sexual harassment, not only against one women bur several women. Mr. Cain denies any such thing as being true but witnesses of the account and those who know about the incidents make it hard for him to convince others that this is just a scam. Mr. Cain plays his only defense stating that he is a victim in these situations and that the media and the players of politics are positioning him as a victim of “gunner politics”.
The first women who accused him of sexual harassment were a woman who worked with him at the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990’s. The incident happened on a night were Mr. Cain and some of his coworkers were enjoying their night and drinking well into the evening where he started to make flirty comments. He didn’t stop and continued to make numerous advances at the woman. He was very inappropriate and persistent with his actions towards her.
After the incident the woman complained to higher authority’s at her job but no one seemed to do anything about it. In fact they all started to look at her differently and she became so uncomfortable that she decided to just leave. After she left the job it was offered and agreed upon between her lawyer and the association general council that they would settle the situation by offering her $35,000 which was about a year’s salary. The woman didn’t bring the story out to the media, in fact she wanted to forget about it and just live her life as a normal woman.
Another woman was offered $45,000 for the same situation between the times that Mr. Cain was working as chief executive of the association. Of course Mr. Cain is highly upset about these stories because they really threaten his chances at becoming president. These allegations could ruin any chance that he had. He constantly denies that any of this took place but he did say that his actions could have been misread by these women. He claims that he would extensively compliment a woman about how good she may look that day but he would never cross the line and that he would never even attempt to compliment her in that manner id he didn’t feel completely comfortable with them and think that they would take it the wrong way.
There are people who know Mr. Cain and who state that he likes to joke and such but he never means to come off the wrong way, he is a playful individual and he is friendly. They could never see him doing such a thing and they can’t figure out these stories.
source-http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/us/politics/woman-said-to-feel-work-hostility-after-alleged-encounter-with-cain.html?pagewanted=2&ref=politics
The first women who accused him of sexual harassment were a woman who worked with him at the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990’s. The incident happened on a night were Mr. Cain and some of his coworkers were enjoying their night and drinking well into the evening where he started to make flirty comments. He didn’t stop and continued to make numerous advances at the woman. He was very inappropriate and persistent with his actions towards her.
After the incident the woman complained to higher authority’s at her job but no one seemed to do anything about it. In fact they all started to look at her differently and she became so uncomfortable that she decided to just leave. After she left the job it was offered and agreed upon between her lawyer and the association general council that they would settle the situation by offering her $35,000 which was about a year’s salary. The woman didn’t bring the story out to the media, in fact she wanted to forget about it and just live her life as a normal woman.
Another woman was offered $45,000 for the same situation between the times that Mr. Cain was working as chief executive of the association. Of course Mr. Cain is highly upset about these stories because they really threaten his chances at becoming president. These allegations could ruin any chance that he had. He constantly denies that any of this took place but he did say that his actions could have been misread by these women. He claims that he would extensively compliment a woman about how good she may look that day but he would never cross the line and that he would never even attempt to compliment her in that manner id he didn’t feel completely comfortable with them and think that they would take it the wrong way.
There are people who know Mr. Cain and who state that he likes to joke and such but he never means to come off the wrong way, he is a playful individual and he is friendly. They could never see him doing such a thing and they can’t figure out these stories.
source-http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/us/politics/woman-said-to-feel-work-hostility-after-alleged-encounter-with-cain.html?pagewanted=2&ref=politics
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