Gettin' There...

Well, it's been a relatively calm week for so close to the election. The only scandalous news stories that have broken on the Washington Post have been about Sarah Palin and her expensive clothing and makeup selection. Most of the news that the Post has been running is to outline how Obama is supposedly ahead in every polled state that is up for grabs. I've been thinking about this, and I think that this could be a swaying tool for them to use to get people to vote for Obama. Post is of course a liberal paper if you haven't read my previous blogs or known anything at all about the paper, and I was thinking that if people who were either undecided or not necessarily thinking about the election and might not vote read the main stories the past few days about Obama leading in the polls they might decide to not vote at all because they think that maybe Obama's going to win it anyway and that their support for McCain would be wasted. My other thought was that they might be trying to encourage other people to come out and vote for Obama because they might see that most everyone else is voting for him and that he's "going to win anyway" so the people might as well vote for him if he's set up to win as it is right now anyway. The Post has a lot of following and is, next to the New York Times, a very largely and widely read newspaper which might have a lot of influence over people who follow the publication. I just thought that it was an interesting thing to think about how they might just be trying to sway voters or they could be just stating the facts about the polls they have incurred. Either way, the Washington Post could be a very influential piece of literature.

Top 5
1. McCain/Palin's Makeup and Clothing Bills
2. Obama Leading in Virginia Polls
3. Obama Leads on Economic Issues
4. GOP Has Split Personality Disorder
5. Colin Powell's Effect/Bradley Effect

Lipstick Jungle

If you've watched the news at all this week, you've heard about the "lipstick on a pig" comment by Barack Obama in which he was refering to the Republican party. This was blown entirely out of proportion, but indeed it was the main headline today on the Washington Post. This article harshly criticized McCain's campaign for picking at Obama's speech and saying that he was speaking about Gov. Palin instead of the Republican party's failed policies. This article definitely leans to the left explaining that McCain promised a fair and honorable fight for the Whitehouse and then goes about highlighting things like Obama saying an age old phrase that could be taken as offensive. What he failed to tell everyone, though, is that he used the same exact expression when campaigning last year when he thought Hillary Clinton was going to be the Decmocratic contender for President, but the article points out that no one took it offensively then. McCain's campaign ads are just using the riducule to make the popular Gov. Palin out to be the victim. This, in theory, would make people on the fence angry that he would say such a thing about Palin and hopefully vote for McCain/Palin. Obama has come back to say that he has used this phrase multiple times, and even before Palin was on the scene, so whatever it is that McCain's campaign is trying to do, they should stop. In my opinion, aren't there more important things to focus on, yet again, besides lipstick on pigs? Here's the real clip from the rally...