Team B-Week 2 (Post 1)

It seems like every candidate running in the 2008 election has an angle or different approach on how they plan to win. The democrats are promising change while the Republicans are promising security and the well-being of the country. In the end every candidate wants to appeal to as many people as they can. Just as in the 1928 elections with Jackson and Adams, the people today are more concerned with the person instead of the issues at hand. All the candidates are bringing up the same social issues involving gay rights, the economy, and the war. As discussed in class, each of the candidates are using issue framing to bring in their voters. Voters today are fed up with the current state were in that they want change; yet, do know who to choose because no one seems genuine enough to solve our problems with the economy and the war. Candidates such as Hilary Clinton are using issue framing and concentrating on the main issue that is of most concern to people such as the war in Iraq. Every candidate has the same view that change is needed in the war with Iraq, from there they will have to use different technqiues to aquire more people on their sides. Clay's tactic in the 1928 election was to use the Federal Bank as a way to take that issue and make an argument to abolish it to appeal to the people. Today, all the candidates have a certain angle in their campaigning strategies; yet, in the end their main goal is to appeal to the voters with an image that they can depend on them and trust them to take the social and economic issues of today