The 2008 presidential election will one day prove to be one of the most important and world changeing elections ever. The election of Barack Obama is veiwed world wide as a great and historic event. In a poll held by ABC 17 out of the 22 polled counrty believe the election of Barack Obama will improve relations between the US and the rest of the world. I think that many of the American people that voted in the 2008 election were well aware of how the rest of the world felt toward the canadates and I believe it could have had a great effect on peoples votes. Personally the 2008 election was my first time voting and the world view was a major reason why I casted my vote for Barack Obama.
The election of 2008 was different then any other election ever held. This is in large reason because of technology and its use. The canadates used technology in many ways never before used in a campaign. Both Obama and McCain adveritsed and post annoucements using such technology as youtube and podcasts. The biggest effect that the use of technology had on the election was the large increase in youth voting. Young people today use technology in their everyday life and by advertising with technology the canadates reached a large addouence of young people. The 2008 election had a 55% turnout for people between 18-35 which is 10% better then in the 2000 elction. The majority of the people betwwen 18-35 voted for Barack Obama so clearly the youth vote made a major impact on the election of 2008.
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Good points. I also voted for Barack Obama for the reasons that his personality struck me as that of a better President than John McCain, his economic plans seemed smarter, and he advocated, in my opinion, better war tactics. Technology played a huge part in this election, whether it was through advertising on the internet, TV, SNL, or early voting. The young voters also had a large impact on the outcome of the election. Apparently, the youth were one of the deciding factors - if we had not voted for mostly Obama, he would have lost.
I agree with the fact that technology has effected youth voting, greatly in Obama's way. He paid for much more advertising than McCain and the websites that all youth use were targeted; Youtube, Facebook, and Myspace being the big ones. However, I do not agree with the fact that you support Obama. I feel McCain has more experience and better war tactics.
you're right, dan. we made history BIG this year! i like the poll. good connection. also i must agree in saying the technology had the largest impact of all of the aspects! the world wide view is really important so i'm glad you touched upon it.
p.s. come comment me bbf :( i'm sad with out your comments!!
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