Mead, Danny ASSIGNMENT 3

Plain Hits "Change" Theme and Criricizes Biden
In this blog, Elisabeth Bumiller points out that Sarah Palin is now attacking both the Democrats on the ticket. It is showing that she is not afraid to challenge a seasoned politician and not a fellow relative newcomer. As she has now called out both Obama and Biden on their slogan for change, they will indefinately come back looking for dirt, although politically 'clean' dirt, and anything and everything when it comes to debates. It will be very interesting t osee how this pans out for the next few months as Election Day nears.

Ratings: McCain Has Slight Edge on Obama; Could Be Decided by Supreme Court
This article stated that McCain's speech had 38.9 million viewers, where as Obama's speech had a little less at 39.3 million viewers. I felt like it was just showing the amount of people who unintentionally voted in a popularity contest. On the same note, the RNC this year was the most watched TV political event in over forty years. I think this was just a preliminary polling as there has not been ample time for there to be any other evaluation.

Palin Good for the Democrats, Too
Michael Luo's article implied that support for the Obama/Biden campaign for the Democrats was less popular to the that of the Republicans with McCain/Palin. However, Senator Obama's campaign was expected to reach $10 million in donations by the time McCain gave his acceptance speech. The McCain campaign took in $10 million after Sarah Palin's speech at the Xcel Energy Center. I found this a very intersting point. However, the fact that Republicans have more money is not a new event. So I feel like this record breaking day for Palin is still somewhat reasonable when it's coming from millionaire oil families and not minimum wage families for the Democrats.