When Sarah Palin was named the running mate for John McCain, nearly every major news outlet was up in arms over the pick. They called her a risk, they said that she was too inexperienced, they said that it could be the worst pick for a vice presidential candidate, EVER!
They could still be right.
However, a new poll suggests that the American public may think that Palin was a better pick than Senator Joe Biden. In a poll done by Rasmussen Reports online finds that voters are in favor of her pick for VP about 53% of the time compared to Biden, who's approval for being picked was just about 43%.
Biden's approval rating climbed to just about 49% after the convention and Palin's approval rating at the time of the poll was expected to see a significant jump as well. However, with hurricane Gustav approaching Louisiana and the Republican Convention scrambling to shift it's guests and speakers around, the percentage bump that Palin would have received remains unclear.
I believe that the approval ratings are however skewed for one reason, Hilary Clinton. I would imagine that the number of disenfranchised Democrats that were upset with the fact that she was not chosen for the VP to Obama probably caused a lot of voters that were polled to conclude that they were not satisfied with the choice of Biden. This was not because they did not think Biden was a good choice for VP, but rather because they preferred Clinton to be on the ticket. Palin's numbers were probably helped because of Clinton as well. Palin made the statement "It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America, but it turns out the women of America aren't finished yet and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all."Appealing to women voters that felt strongly for Clinton, I feel also helped her numbers.
Other numbers that I found that were when compared to the favorability to the two candidates were the numbers regarding if they were ready to be president. 49% felt that Biden was ready to be president compared to 29% of people who felt Palin was ready to be president. I hate to think the favorability and the person who is ready to be president polls would be so far apart, as it looks like a popularity contest.
Favorite quote from the article : "Joe Biden has been in the Senate since Palin was nine years old."
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/palin_makes_good_first_impression_is_viewed_more_favorably_than_biden
Monday, September 1, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Sex "trade" on YOUR College Campus???
I read a very interesting article on CNN entitled " Bartering sex for stuff and services," which immediately caught my eye because this is just not an article you expect to be plastered on the front page of a major news organization. Maybe a new marketing gimmick to suck in our age group?
The main point of the article deals with how men and women use a type of system in which they exchange sex for various help and for various items. One woman claimed to have been pursuing a trip into the very dangerous Amazon rain forest but, was unable to find a guide that would take her. So she found a nice indigenous boy that could do all of the jungle things like, cutting down trees, fishing, making houses so that she could have that experience. She's said "and of course we had sex for two weeks" so that he could get his "experience" too. "It was a good barter both ways," she says. "I got to stay in the jungle, and he got to have sex with a cute, young American girl."
The other part of the article was something that related more to us as college students. They did a poll at the university of Michigan of 475 undergraduates and found some pretty interesting results. They found out that of a survey of people from 17 -26 that 27 percent of the men and 14 percent of the women who weren't in a committed relationship had offered someone favors or gifts. Some things listed were "help prepping for a test, laundry washing, tickets to a college football game." I know that tickets for Michigan football games are hard to come by, but really???
I guess the part that bothered me the most was how it was targeted towards our age group, like we are the only ones that partake in such adventures. The girl mentioned above said that it happened in 2000 and that she was 27 at the time the article was written. My calculations put that at her being around 19 - 20 years old. So is our age group the only ones that partake in these kind of activities? Or is this an article directed at older individuals that take particular joy in reading about how corrupt youth society is today?
My reaction was that how is this any different than the "obvious" couple that has a 34 year old woman with a 69 year old guy. Why is something like that considered "gold digging" and if it has to deal with youths it is a "sex bartering" system. Has anyone heard or seen this on campus? I obviously have not been hanging out with the right people then. :)
Article URL : http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/08/25/sex.for.stuff/index.html
The main point of the article deals with how men and women use a type of system in which they exchange sex for various help and for various items. One woman claimed to have been pursuing a trip into the very dangerous Amazon rain forest but, was unable to find a guide that would take her. So she found a nice indigenous boy that could do all of the jungle things like, cutting down trees, fishing, making houses so that she could have that experience. She's said "and of course we had sex for two weeks" so that he could get his "experience" too. "It was a good barter both ways," she says. "I got to stay in the jungle, and he got to have sex with a cute, young American girl."
The other part of the article was something that related more to us as college students. They did a poll at the university of Michigan of 475 undergraduates and found some pretty interesting results. They found out that of a survey of people from 17 -26 that 27 percent of the men and 14 percent of the women who weren't in a committed relationship had offered someone favors or gifts. Some things listed were "help prepping for a test, laundry washing, tickets to a college football game." I know that tickets for Michigan football games are hard to come by, but really???
I guess the part that bothered me the most was how it was targeted towards our age group, like we are the only ones that partake in such adventures. The girl mentioned above said that it happened in 2000 and that she was 27 at the time the article was written. My calculations put that at her being around 19 - 20 years old. So is our age group the only ones that partake in these kind of activities? Or is this an article directed at older individuals that take particular joy in reading about how corrupt youth society is today?
My reaction was that how is this any different than the "obvious" couple that has a 34 year old woman with a 69 year old guy. Why is something like that considered "gold digging" and if it has to deal with youths it is a "sex bartering" system. Has anyone heard or seen this on campus? I obviously have not been hanging out with the right people then. :)
Article URL : http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/08/25/sex.for.stuff/index.html
A Little Me Action
Hey all...
My name is Chas and I am a Super Senior Political Science major finishing up my last 4 classes here at the ilstu. I am currently commuting 40 minutes in a day to class and living in a basement where I can here cows mooing in the morning. At least it is only three days a week though! I am taking Public opinion because it fits in nice and neat to my schedule and I need my last 300 level Political Science course to graduate. That being said, I do look forward to the class and listening to the thousands of different opinions that will be shouted out over the next 18 weeks in the heat of this political race.
My name is Chas and I am a Super Senior Political Science major finishing up my last 4 classes here at the ilstu. I am currently commuting 40 minutes in a day to class and living in a basement where I can here cows mooing in the morning. At least it is only three days a week though! I am taking Public opinion because it fits in nice and neat to my schedule and I need my last 300 level Political Science course to graduate. That being said, I do look forward to the class and listening to the thousands of different opinions that will be shouted out over the next 18 weeks in the heat of this political race.
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