Presidential Campaign

Today in class we began watching a documentry of our current President's journey to be elected to the White House.  This is relevant because of the upcoming 2008 election in which we will have a new president. The article http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-11-27-voa34.cfm discusses how the campaign for 2008 has intesified because the primaries are coming up in 2008.  We talked in class about the importance of the states of Iowa and New Hampshire.  South Carolina is another important state because the primary is so early.  There is a three way fight in the democratic party and it is getting even hotter because only one person can win the primary.  The strategy of winning the primaries is very different than winning the presidency because you are campaiging against people who are of the same party as you are.  That causes the strategies to differ.  There is also tension between the two strong Republican nominees Romney and Guilani.  The primaries are interesting because you are trying to win the vote of the people in your party and not worrying about people of the other party, that is the purpose of the presidential election.

Posted at 08:07PM Nov 27, 2007 by Ashley Waid in General  |  Comments[0]

Divided Government

The previous article http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hmzyiVIIB2w-pCeJrPL8qU3y5DKgD8SL4T2G1  demonstrates the divided government that we discussed in much detail in class.  Pelosi made the comment that Congress has not be able to wind down the War in Iraq.  However, she blames Bush and other Republicans because the ideas that the Democrats pose to end the war are veteod by Bush and not favored by the other Republicans.  This stops the Democrats from putting into action their plans to end the war.  She also talks about other plans that the Democrats want to put into action but cannot get the President to support.  That is an example of seperation of power. 

Posted at 07:59PM Nov 27, 2007 by Ashley Waid in General  |  Comments[0]