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Money money money, it's a big factor in these races. This race is said to end up being the costliest campaign in history. Both parties are said to have topped or be closed to topping 2 billion dollars worth of costs with ads, direct mail, and all the other forms of getting their words out.
Both president Obama and Romney were at 1.5 billion at the end of September. And although Obama has not yet provided us with the amount of money his campaign has cost for the month of October, the Romney campaign has said to have raised 111.8 million in the first two weeks of the month.
They both have their fair share of donors, whether they wealthy or smaller donors. People are committed to this campaign and committed to their parties.

Politics on the defense

As bad as this might sound, sometimes this type of stuff grabs my attention better than the hard hitting cold facts. The headline of this article was "Kids know the 'other guy' is a bullshitter Obama tells Rolling Stone."
The exact quote out of Obama's mouth was, "They look at the other guy and say, 'Well, that's a bullsh-ter, I can tell.'"
Romney and his advisers fired back, saying that it is sad that Obama has to take his comments so far on the defense now. They are stated as saying that the only thing Obama has left in this race is insults and rude comments.  He has also, according to this article, coined a term called "Romnesia". He uses this term to address his opponents flippy flop on issues to appeal to voters.
Obama is making many little remarks like so, and I find it sad that he has to go to that level. I find it sad that at any point, any candidate has to get so testy. This literally is the version of adult political bullying. It is not a good role model aura to give off, from two people that are in the running to run our entire country.
In the first political debate, Romney was the same way. More on the defense, more insults and snappy comments fired. I know this is the way to win, put down your candidate, but I really wish that the childish behavior was left behind, so we could actually get a more mature race for our leader. Would you disagree or agree with the idea of the candidates getting a little childish at times?

Obama claims to have lead, but may be wrong.

With this election coming to a boil pretty soon, voting is to happen in a matter of only a week and a few days, whoever is pulling ahead is vital information. Obama said in an interview with NBC that he still has the lead over Romney, but he may have been mistaken. A poll shows that Romney is pulling in 47% of voters compared to a 45% with Obama. Although this gap can be quickly filled, it is a very close race.
Obama had a stronger point with woman, more woman supported him. But Romney slashed his 16 point lead, turning int into a tie among the woman. In turn, Obama smashed Romney's 13 point advantage amongst men to a mere 5 points. It is obvious that Obama's loss amongst the woman population is bigger, and the president try to make a comeback from that. He brought up how Richard Mourdock said that a baby during rape can be something "God intended to" Romney's campaign although, even though he is pro life, states that he wouldn't force a child in cases of rape and incest so he furthered himself from the comment. Obama's team is trying to connect this comment to Romney though, trying to get his advantage with Woman voters back up.
As this race comes to an end, things are getting heated and things are getting close. May the best man win. Who do you think that man should be?

Hollywood and Politics

As I was scrolling through webpages trying to find something interesting to write about, I stumbled across this article. I was worried that nothing would attract my attention, I have a hard time focusing on the news. But this caught my eye because it seemed different then all the other hard hitting news on the web page. The article is titled, "Do celebrity endorsements matter?" And the title is concerning whether or not celebrities have influence in changing your mind and opinions during an election.
Whether you like or you don't like celebrities, you can not deny that pop culture is taking over our world in a certain way. The things celebrities do and say take up so much of our time, they are everywhere. They have a big pull over certain people and why not use that power to influence their preferred party? The biggest and best example that the article states about this is Oprah's big influence in the 2008 race when she was pushing for Obama. Oprah worked well as an endorsement because she is not one of the crazy celebrities in our day, she is honest and credible and everybody trusts her.
Also these political endorsements that celebrities do need to have the correct demographic picked out. The article states that Eva Longoria recently pushed for Woman to vote for Obama because of Romney's planned parenthood plan. That is obviously something aimed towards young woman adults or just adult woman. In that case, they picked the perfect celebrity to back that idea and issue.
Reading this article was crazy to me. I knew that celebrities were slowly taking over our lives, being all over the news and plastered every around our towns. But I never thought of them using their power to influence something so big and important in our lives. The words they say can greatly impact many peoples votes and even change the outcome of the race.