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

Makeup or Breakup

Today and yesterday, all over the Washington Post website, they had article after article of course saying that McCain is struggling in all of the polls, and mainly focusing what McCain's campaign is not doing rather than what Obama's campaign is or isn't. However, yesterday and today, there have also been a few interesting articles that have been in the lime light on the "On The Trail" section about Palin's wardrobe and makeup choices. It's been all over the news in the last month that the McCain/Palin campaign has spent over $150,000 in dressing and making up Governor Palin. The total of the money was divided up between paying a professional Makeup Artist, who has also done makeup on "Dancing With The Stars", and buying new suits and makeup for Governor Palin to use from high end stores such as Sak's Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. Of course, the Post finds this ridiculous but seems to try not to make it seem like they think that way. They continued to rip on the McCain/Palin campaign, not because they necessarily used the makeup artist and paid for the suits and clothing, but for the fact that they want to portray Palin as a "regular hockey mom" and no hockey mom they know shops as Sak's or Neiman Marcus. Another big deal with the campaign's beautification strategies that the Post brought up was that the campaign was paying more for makeup and clothes for Gov. Palin than they are paying their Foreign Policy advisor for the campaign. The Post believes that this shows where the campaigns loyalties really lie, and that they are just trying to win the election instead of genuinely caring about what will happen to the country in the next 4 years. In the past week since the Post has openly endorsed Senator Obama, they have continually pushed McCain's campaign into the most scrutinized spotlight in order to find anything and everything that he has been doing that is incorrect as to ensure voters for Obama. If it were any more obvious, it would smack you in the face.