Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Is it Worth to Invest in Campaign?

It makes me feel almost sick to see the money is being spent on these political campaigns, and how candidates literally buy elected office depending on how much money they have to spend. Many people criticize Barack Obama, a candidate running on helping the middle class, arguing that why do not give tens of millions of these campaign dollars to the middle class. I have noticed that many people attack Barack’s spending in campaign, ignoring McCain’s.
As campaign entered last week the rate of early voting increased considerably. More that 2.3 million voters in Texas went to vote, according to the Texas Secretary of State. That is a 57.4 percent increase over early voting at the same point four years ago. This has been the result of this BIG spending, at least.
Everyone just hope a change. Opinions show that Obama could be the right man for the job especially for small business owners.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Bundling, a solution for candidate’s campaign

The main topic of this blog, by Gardner Selby, is the Bundling from Texans to help McCain and Obama’s race. (Bundling: collecting many small to midsize contributions into mountains of campaign cash.) Bundling became popular as a legal way for campaigns to gather large amounts efficiently.

The author’s intended audience for this article is for those people who are involved in politics, and for those who may want to support a candidate for certain supporter's benefit. For instance, a businessman could support his favorite candidate's campaign whose proposals best fit supporter’s necessity.

The author is presenting his information well supported since he shows quotations from fundraisers.

According with this author’s information, McCain has been supported more than Obama by Texan supporters. However, the author, as it has been noticeable that Austin American Statement supports Obama, is trying to show that even though a candidate spends so much money in the campaign, it will not ensure the presidential throne. It has been known through polls Obama has more percentage of winning.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

More money to protect Texan borders?

The Dallas Morning News, on September 30th, 2008, presented an article with an opening saying that Gov. Rick Perry wants $24 million to fight the gangs that are spreading like virus along the southern border.
This article sounds aggressive since Perry is using racist words. The way in which Gov. Perry is expressing may be offensive for some people because he is describing people, entering illegally, with a racist terminology. Also, is acting prematurely since he is trying to attract citizen’s attention now that his possible re-election is coming.
This article may not be favorable for Republicans now that elections are getting closer because this kind of arguments could be negative in favor for his party.
Although the article is well supported because most of the texts are in quotations, the author does not present the source of this information. Moreover, the author could have been more concerned in the audience. On the other hand, the author could seem as if he were in favor of Democrats exaggerating Perry’s speech to make people aware of what is coming if he were again Governor.