It's Time To Predict.
The time has come to choose the next President of the United States. Everyone turn off your television sets and vote for the next president, here?
The internet is swamped with information on where to vote and where to go and statistics showing who is in the lead and what needs to happen in order for the other guy to win. Overly bombarded, the issues I am most concerned with are taxes, Medicare, Social Security, immigration, and the course of U.S. foreign policy. These issues are what people are mostly talking about and questioning who is the best man for the job. As an independent voter, I am seeing now more and more the issues discussed in class play part in the elections. For example, how they use each others weaknesses in debates as an excuse to why they are not good candidates for office. Obama has received much debate and negative criticism on Obama Care and how that is hitting the economy and not even properly doing its purpose. Then in Romney's case, we see how he got bombarded with a hard hit on the video tape and the dinner party he hosted in a private event. That news got out and soon the media flooded with comments about the issue. What I am trying to say is that either of these men would most likely be good president's. But the question lies on who can be the best. In class we learned about the history of politics and how the President's were told what to say ahead of time in some instances. We also learned how even framing doesn't work with politics and their opinions on who should win because in the end it is up to the public as whole to decide. Once example of this would be how politicians and the media tried to frame the case of Zoe Baird and disregard the fact she was not paying taxes on her maid. This created an uproar in society because politicians are the ones who are supposed to be informing the rules and here one is breaking them. Naturally, the public took matters into their own hands and kicked her out of her future title. What this shows is a sense of control for the public that can so easily be forgotten. Regardless of the way news is framed by politicians or the media, the public has the last laugh.
As much as the media, therefore, influences the public, the decision is up to the public.That is why I believe so many online systems are focusing their realm on "online predictions." I am seeing more and more of these online voters predicting the future in articles I am reading and in ways trying to persuade people. One example of this persuasion could be the online predictors of the ballots. The people who predict what will happen according to the closed slots and states won by either Republicans or Democrats. One such example can be seen in this link: http://www.foxbusiness.com/government/2012/11/06/election-2012-rewind-seasons-wackiest-outcome-predictors/
These predictors have an online "voting" ballot in which you can log on and vote for yourself who will win. This allows a psychological and interesting response from audience members who want to be a part of the race to the next president.
I also believe this are being manipulated in some way so that other people will see the general majority and perhaps change opinions. As FDR once said, "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Therefore, surprises like the Romney video getting out or the controversy with Obama Care, I believe are there for a reason.
http://blog.beerjobber.com/index.php/vote-for-obama-or-nobama/
This website allows you to vote for the candidate you want for a price. Therefore, my presumed case is that even though their is a freedom to express one's own opinions, more and more I am realizing there is a cost. Either way, the presidential debates will continue and someone will win. Who that may be, I don't know, but perhaps future predictors do? Cast you vote for a dollar and find out!
The time has come to choose the next President of the United States. Everyone turn off your television sets and vote for the next president, here?
The internet is swamped with information on where to vote and where to go and statistics showing who is in the lead and what needs to happen in order for the other guy to win. Overly bombarded, the issues I am most concerned with are taxes, Medicare, Social Security, immigration, and the course of U.S. foreign policy. These issues are what people are mostly talking about and questioning who is the best man for the job. As an independent voter, I am seeing now more and more the issues discussed in class play part in the elections. For example, how they use each others weaknesses in debates as an excuse to why they are not good candidates for office. Obama has received much debate and negative criticism on Obama Care and how that is hitting the economy and not even properly doing its purpose. Then in Romney's case, we see how he got bombarded with a hard hit on the video tape and the dinner party he hosted in a private event. That news got out and soon the media flooded with comments about the issue. What I am trying to say is that either of these men would most likely be good president's. But the question lies on who can be the best. In class we learned about the history of politics and how the President's were told what to say ahead of time in some instances. We also learned how even framing doesn't work with politics and their opinions on who should win because in the end it is up to the public as whole to decide. Once example of this would be how politicians and the media tried to frame the case of Zoe Baird and disregard the fact she was not paying taxes on her maid. This created an uproar in society because politicians are the ones who are supposed to be informing the rules and here one is breaking them. Naturally, the public took matters into their own hands and kicked her out of her future title. What this shows is a sense of control for the public that can so easily be forgotten. Regardless of the way news is framed by politicians or the media, the public has the last laugh.
As much as the media, therefore, influences the public, the decision is up to the public.That is why I believe so many online systems are focusing their realm on "online predictions." I am seeing more and more of these online voters predicting the future in articles I am reading and in ways trying to persuade people. One example of this persuasion could be the online predictors of the ballots. The people who predict what will happen according to the closed slots and states won by either Republicans or Democrats. One such example can be seen in this link: http://www.foxbusiness.com/government/2012/11/06/election-2012-rewind-seasons-wackiest-outcome-predictors/
These predictors have an online "voting" ballot in which you can log on and vote for yourself who will win. This allows a psychological and interesting response from audience members who want to be a part of the race to the next president.
I also believe this are being manipulated in some way so that other people will see the general majority and perhaps change opinions. As FDR once said, "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Therefore, surprises like the Romney video getting out or the controversy with Obama Care, I believe are there for a reason.
http://blog.beerjobber.com/index.php/vote-for-obama-or-nobama/
This website allows you to vote for the candidate you want for a price. Therefore, my presumed case is that even though their is a freedom to express one's own opinions, more and more I am realizing there is a cost. Either way, the presidential debates will continue and someone will win. Who that may be, I don't know, but perhaps future predictors do? Cast you vote for a dollar and find out!
posted by Sylvia.Rojas | 3:06 PM
1 Comments:
Sylvia--I really loved the link you provided on "sharing your opinion for a cost" and the idea that you have that sharing our opinions on voting preference really does have a cost in the long run. I wish I had read this before the election results came out (I worked that night) but you approach this from a very interesting point of view.
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