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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Traveling salesmen or presidential candidates? The art of retail politics.
There is an old song by the late Johnny Cash titled ‘Iv’e been everywhere.’ Perhaps there is no better way to describe what takes place with all major front runner candidates when what I call ‘Presidential election season’ comes to … Continue reading
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Rand Paul election timing-Free media
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/08/politics/rand-paul-2016-missed-moment/index.html Evidently yesterday Tuesday the 7th of April was the day for Rand Paul to enter the race for the 2016 presidency, or was it? The media is having a field day with his annoucement, and while this article could be … Continue reading
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Right Said Ted
The topic in which I am going to focus on for this blog entry is disgust. This dialog is a Ted Talk regarding how feelings of disgust plays a part in politics. This quote from the transcript of that talk: … Continue reading
Republicans smacking around the president
There are few attention grabbing titles that can match the article that I have decided to talk about. The link can be found here: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/01/politics/iran-nuclear-deal-delay-republicans/index.html and the title is “GOP slaps Obama over Iran talks extension”. Immediately I am taught … Continue reading
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Portman vs. Strickland
As the 2016 Presidential Campaign is starting to take off, another important race is kicking off for Ohioans. The 2016 Senatorial race, where Rob Portman as the incumbent and Ted Strickland as the challenger. In Cleveland.com article about Rob Portman … Continue reading
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Australia is in quite a bind.
In Australia the Aboriginals are facing the diminishing of their own cultures. The federal funding has been cut off as of July of 2015. This is the funding that provides for the indigenous communities forcing them to find a new … Continue reading
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Tammy Duckworth launches Illinois Senate bid
As we have recently studied in both chapter 8 and 10 of our text (Politics and Communication in America) Denton and Kuypers explain that when announcing your bid to run for office you should follow a plan to help you succeed. In … Continue reading
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Obama’s job program for Vets
President Obama wants to add 75,000 jobs to the solar energy sector by 2020. the put out by the International Business Times notes that 174,000 people work in solar which is higher than the coal industry, solar energy is booming right … Continue reading
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“Real Women”
Not your typical politics: In an issue by US Magazine “Eloquii Taps Real Women to Model Latest Collection” I would like to use framing to describe what we are seeing here. With America’s growing obesity issue our citizens are getting … Continue reading
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Can Sen. Marco Rubio follow up Ted Cruz’s unorthodox announcement?
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has come out to say that he will be making a “big announcement” on April 13. He plans on announcing what he plans to do in terms of whether or not he will be running … Continue reading
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