Seminar Reflection

In today's seminar, I contributed as much as I could. I gave my input to the best of my ability. To prepare for the seminar I read the article at least three times. I could have done a better job preparing by printing out the article and annotating it. Some of the things that I brought up were some reasons on why lowering or raising the voting age would be a good or bad thing. Then I mentioned how changing it or not would benefit our country.

I agreed with Mike's opinion because he thought that we would go through all of this uneccessary debating over changing the voting age to sixteen when the outcome would just be a dissapointment. Only about five percent would actually go through the trouble to vote and the other roughly 95 percent would even vote. I don't remember any certain individual wanting to change the voting to thirteen but those that did I disagree with because it's uneccessary and won't have that much of a subsantial difference as hoped.

I think that the most interesting point made today was one that was made by Wilson. He said that he believes that if sixteen and seventeen year olds really want to be active voters, then they should only be allowed to vote in the primary's. That way, they still have somewhat of a say and their voice is heard. I think that's brilliant.

Vocab Response to youth voting.

I think that this is going to be the year of the youth vote. According to recent articles, more young people have been getting involved in this nations government and politics. Television networks such as MTV has come up with things such as rock the vote with hopes to form coalitions with our country's youth. In doing so, they seemed to have succeeded. In recent statistics, Senator Barack Obama's votes have in fact come from both the conservatives and the liberals. Barack seems to have yet another advantage on his side. It's his secret weapon; our Nation's youth. Much of today's youth already sees Senator Obama as America's next incumbent Democratic leader. Barack's speaks to the youth rather than at them. This is just another reason why as more Americans gain their suffrage, they will continue to vote for him. He has already mad many attempts at creating change in issues such as Stem-Cell Research but any bill that has come up has seemed to be vetoed. Barack seems to be the only real cadidate who has really been progressive in all areas. He will stop at nothing to ensure the American people as well as it's youth that if elected president we will see change. Unlike other candidates, he isn't evangelical and doesn't make decisions based on religion. Barack Obama for president 2008!!!

Election process reflection

This past week or so preparing for the primary debate has been frustrating. The research portion wasn't so much but the notes and preparation for the actural speech and debate were. I learned a lot about the other politicians views on certain topics such as the situation in Iraq as well as the Economy. I have an even lesser respect for the republican candidates. However I have found some good things about Senator John McCain. He supports Stem Cell Research and isn't closed minded like his opponents. This malk debate was a good practice and demonstration of how these types of things happen. It was a great experience.