Post 3: Campaign Ads

This campaign season has been even more fierce than usual.  Pick one Minnesota race (District 3 - Paulson v. Phillips, Governor - Walz v. Johnson, Attorney General - Ellison v. Wardlow, etc) and watch an ad from each candidate and then answer the following prompt:

What claims is each candidate making?  What advertising technique(s) is each candidate using?  Whose ad do you find more persuasive and why?

It would be awesome if you fact checked the ad, but that is not required.

You can find ads by going to YouTube and searching for the name of the candidate and ad.

Post is due on November 2nd.

Respond to post 2

So this week rather than responding to a post from last week you need to read and cite at least one article and respond to this prompt:

What will be the impact of the confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh?  

Your response can address how it will affect the midterm elections, how it will affect turn out, how it will affect the political parties, how it'll affect the Supreme Court's legitimacy, etc.

You have a lot of directions you can take your response.

Due on Monday, October 22 please.

Connecting posts 1 and 2

This piece on National Public Radio connects the topic from post 1 (the midterms) with post 2 (the Kavanaugh vote).

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/654015874/poll-amid-kavanaugh-confirmation-battle-democratic-enthusiasm-edge-evaporates

This one discusses who Americans believe and gender differences in polling.

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/654054108/poll-more-believe-ford-than-kavanaugh-a-cultural-shift-from-1991

We will cover polling and public opinion next trimester more in depth.