How can we make a difference?

As an American citizen there are many was we can make a difference in our government. We have the power to change what we dont like. When they intergrated popular soverignty that put the people in charge over the government. It is our duty as citizens to take a stand for what we beleive. We have the right to vote for who we beleive should run our country, we have the right to go out and talk about what we beleive we need to see in our country, and we also have the right to take a stand and tell them what we see that they are doing is wrong and tell them and make our voices heard. I beleive that we have become to complacent with just "going with the flow"

assignment

How much does pre-election coverage effect how we vote? Read the stories on the front (home) page of Politico.com and answer the question: How does this election coverage help me exercise my rights and responsiblities as a citizen? As you think about the coverage, ask yourself what you (can) do as a citizen:
Vote
Keep up to date on issues
Pay taxes
Write your representative(s) and senator(s)
Walk a precinct
Sign up as a deputy registrar
Work at the polls on election day
Take part in a phone bank
Attend a rally or demonstration
Wear funny T-shirts
Anything else that makes sense to youAs you read the coverage, ask yourself how individual stories on Politico.com factor into these roles. Post your answer(s) to your blog.Example: Politico.com has a daily feature called "The Arena," in which politicians and others who follow public affairs answer questions of the day. Today's is "Based on what you know now, is Obama headed for a blowout victory?" One answer is by appellate lawyer Walter Dellinger of North Carolina and visiting professor at Harvard. His answer: "I can't speak to the national politics, but I have become convinced that Obama will win my home state of North Carolina ..." He adds, "I think enthusiasm and ground operation coupled with early voting will trump closet racism and Obama will exceed his poll numbers in NC." This sounds like the kind of "horse race" coverage I like to complain of, but the issues Dellinger raises can affect my role as a citizen, because I bet my wife I would push a peanut with my nose from the Tennessee line on I-40 to Cape Hatteras if Obama carries North Carolina. (A Carolina-style boiled peanut, of course.) More importantly, he gives me reason to hope racial attitudes down South are not as harsh as I had feared they were.
FootnoteA story on the Bloomberg website about changing attitudes in the South makes the same point: "North Carolina, like Florida and Virginia, represents a New South politically, different from the deeply conservative, reliably red -- as in Republican -- one that marks most of Dixie," says Albert R. Hunt, executive Washington editor at Bloomberg News. It's a good example of political reporting as well. Worth a read. Would be a good one to analyze for next week's assignment, too, if you get my drift. So there's more going on in the horserace coverage, if it's done right, than who's going to win the election ... even if the horserace is the news hook that gets readers into the story.

Analysis or Advocacy?

I beleive that Andrew Romano was doing an analysis. I beleive this because he was going through and breaking down the camapign parties and explaining how each campaign has its faults and how they are running on each others slip ups. He goes on to explain how Mcains campains are being more looked into that Obamas. He even went out and found some of Obamas slip ups.

I WAS HERE!!!!!

DOC I was in class on Wednes September 24. 2008.

Why

So as I sit here at my computer thinking about all the hype about the presidential campaign I wonder why. Why, must all politicians be such hypocritical liars? They say this year is going to be different we arent the childish people you have had run for your presidents before, but yet they do the same thing as their predicessors. They says they are going to be adults about things but yet still act as children do. So why should the American people trust them anymore than they trust our current leader, which facts show they dont. If anyone can answer these questions I would really like them.