The tone of this blog tends to lean towards the Republican party favoring Ron Paul and Russ Thompson. The site is well laid out and easy to read with many informative video clips, and lots of comments from other people making in interesting debate to keep an eye on. Reading peoples' comments and their opposing views and thoughts keeps you interested, such as this post. The page has a long list of links to take you to related places as well as a few advertisements on the right hand side.
After reading "Does the Internet create Democracy?" by Alinta Thornton and the asking myself," How are blogs affecting local politics?" I came to the conclusion that blogs are having a huge effect on local politics. By being able to put possible candidates and their views online has a major effect the younger votes and allows them to get to know a candidate better then just what they hear from the news and their fights in debates. Local politicians can get involved in the community and stay in touch with what is going on around them and the cities they are supposed to be governing. For me personally going out to vote is not usually on the top of my list of things to do, but if online voting was an option, since us students are online constantly, it would be something that I would definitely be more likely to do. As Thornton stated in her paper, " The USA has run several trials to test the viability of online voting. Arizona trialled it in the June 2000 primary elections and found that participation rose by 600%, with 40,000 voters, 80% of the total, voting online." This shows that making voting more accessible for some people could help increase voter turnout by quite a bit.
I am not really into politics but after doing this blog and studying Jim Ostrowski's web site I have come to realize that whether I know it or not, politics are playing a big role in our everyday lives, and have a new found respect for how much time, money and effort that they put into their campaign. In the future I can absolutely see online voting as a viable option, as well as candidates focusing more on technology to reach untapped markets.
3 comments:
very informative.. seems like you have a lot of knowledge about politics =)
I agree with you about voting online. I feel that if it was made possible, there would be a huge turnout of young people who are now actually voting becuase of how simple it is. And, teenagers are the age group who spend the most time online, so it makes sense to implement such a thing.
your post is very interesting. i think its important for people to realize that young people are very involved with the internet and if politics are on the internet then young people will care about it more.
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