Friday, October 24, 2008

Unprecedented

I am really glad that we watched this because it better helps me understand what had happen in the Gore v.s. Bush election.
They gave us some good background information about Florida and who was "allowed " to vote.
The movie said that they were trying to find ways to deny African Americans the right to vote. They put in the law that if you were a felon or an ex felon you did not have the right to vote, hoping to take a large percent of the black community. They also did things like match people who had similar names up with to people who had committed a felony.
Then the talked about the recount in Florida for the 2004 elections, and how it was very possible that there had been people tampering with the ballots. They also talked about how the new computer voting system, and how with a click of a button some ones vote can be changed.
I thought it was a very interesting movie and I am glad that we had got the chance to watch it.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Which debate?

Well since I did not really get a chance to see the last one I will say my opinion off of the first two.
I honestly can not pick between them because I feel like one lead to the other. I think that they talked about a large range of topics and all of which were very important.
I think I will do the rest of this assignment after I watch the final debate.

Which debate

Thursday, October 9, 2008

debate reaction

My reaction to the last debate was that even though it was suppose to be the american people asking the questions it was very played out, like everything was done for a reason.
the other debate felt realer to me then this one. And I must say that instead of being on the edge of my seat I was rather board.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Democratic Head quarters

Today we visited the Democrats of the Kennebunks campaign office. We were all sort of assigned questions to ask, my question was "How many people work in the headquarters?" she said that about 20 volunteers work there.
but she also said something very interesting on the war and what i got from it was her saying that if we sent all "the rich kids" to the war there would not be a war. I don't iknow if that is true or not but i thought it was good to get her opinion.
I really hope that next time we go there she talks less about herself and more about the organization.