Elections and The Media
The media in this day and age has had a large effect on the elections. This was seen during the 2008 elections with 24 hour news such as CNN and Fox News. These stations were broadcasting the elections from before the primaries until election day. During this time period these stations were showing speeches, standings, and political analysts discussing what the candidates were doing and analyzing their strategies. Then on days when a state or states had their primaries or caucuses the station would have already predicted who would win the state because enough districts had tallied their votes.h e same goes for the final election. On election day 2008 CNN was reporting if McCain or Obama had one a state as soon as the polls closed in those states. Also within ten minutes of when Obama won the election there was a barrage of status updates on Facebook announcing that Obama had won. This shows how dependent our society is on technology.
Commercials are also a large factor in the race for the president because it is a opportunity for the candidate to tell the nation in their views and get their name out.
These are two good examples of a campaign commercials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpmFd25tRqo
Campaign commercials can be used for many things such as saying what the candidate will do for the country, show the other candidates weaknesses, and as a feel good message trying to get people to think that they are their friend.
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