Cambaign update for the week of 10-25-10

A few lectures ago, our class was talking about mudslinging and negative campaign ads and whether theyare actually effective on the public. This update will focus on both the Carnahan and Blunt campaign ads and if thier ads fall into this category.

The most of  Rebuplican Roy Blunt ads are negative. He rarely critizes Carnahan's platform by only focusing on her ties to Obama. I have noticed he constantly ususes a sound byte of Obama endorsing Carnahan. Blount uses that specific sound clip in almost every commerical to attack Carnahan as a rubber stamper of  Obama's platform, which he sees as bad for Missouri.

The Democrat Robin Carnahan, attacks Blunt's honesty about his corporate ties to PerfectWave, a california contractor. Her most recent ads are positive and have endorsements from Republican citzens.

Campaign update for the week of 10-18-10

I thought  this week was going to be a slow news day for my campaign, I am glad that I was wrong. There are a lot of issues and controversies that have come up recently.

I  went back to both Robin Carnahan's and Roy Blunt's political websites. On Roy Blunt's campaign website, there were several new advertisements that apparently say that democaric policies endanger the health of seniors and state that foriegn workers are going to take over Missouri, wait there is no foriegn border at all near Missouri! Why would he highlight border patrol if the real border is in southwest America? Or does he want stop Illinoisans from crossing  into Missouri?

On the other hand, Robin Carnahan's website  new campaign ads are much more about the  facts and the policies behind her campaign. She lists concrete ideas about how to create and maintain jobs in Missouri. Carnahan also highlights Blunt's links to a corrupt corporation and discusses her plan for banning earmarks that Blount uses excessively.

campaign update for the week of 10/11/10

As the campaign trail comes closer to an end, its getting closer to the wire. Since Democrats are starting to get concerned that they will lose their majority that they have held on to since Obama took office. It seems like now democrats are focusing on Missouri senate race as the best chance for a pick-up. There is still a sense of worry because although Robin Carnahan's family is very well known in Missouri politics, she is still a newcomer. Republican Roy Blunt is known more in the national politics world, therefore he has an easier time being able to get endorsements from higher people in the senate.

There is something that I saw just last night, I know this might sound like I am going off track, just listen to all of it. There was an new episode of Family Guy on and it featured Rush Limbaugh voicing himself and he made Brian the dog from a hardcore liberal, to a extreme conservative. But at the end of the episode, Brian went back to being a democrat and started to bash Rush's ideas, then they smiled at each other and shook hands. This reminded me that even though I don't agree with republicans on most issues, people can still be friendly and respectful of peoples opinions.

campaign update for the week of Oct. 4, 2010

For this campaign update, I wanted to focus on something that confused me during the past few weeks of the election campaign. My usual mourning routine is  I wake up and  always watch the Today Show.  One morning I was watching as usual, when I saw a attack ad against Robin Carnahan but it was not from the Blunt campaign, but from a special interest group.

A special interest group is a  group of citizens or corporations who support a candidate on one or two specific issues. So I already knew what a special interest group was, I was just confused why a Missouri senate campaign ad was being show in Southern Illinois. So I asked my professor and I found out that the reason was because of the small media market that surrounds Southern Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri.

Since the election cycle is coming closer to an end, there are going to be more campaign ads, not just from Missouri, but from all the other campaigns in this media market. So I can expect more local campaign ads ruining my morning routine much more often!