The Wedge Issue – R.I.P?

By: Brian Bohnert
Largely buried in the furor of the historic nature of the presidential election, our old electoral friend “the wedge issue” has not disappeared completely.  Used to great effect in the 2000, and 2004 elections by Rove and the RNC to get voters to the polls (although, it should be noted that there is not much statistical evidence for [...]

Let’s cut the bull crap and get down to business!

November 1, 2008
By: Melissa Keller
Coloradans have turned in their TV remotes for more useful forms of information since their local television has been taken over by negative political ads. For those watching local news, it’s difficult to decide on who their congressional representative shall be this year when all there is to see are scandals [...]

Lakoff Part Deux

Professor Robinson brought up some <a href=”http://election2008ucdenver.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/lakoff-metaphors-and-08-campaign-oh-my/#comment-329″>great points</a> in his comments about my last post regarding <a href=”http://election2008ucdenver.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/lakoff-metaphors-and-08-campaign-oh-my/#comments”>George Lakoff</a>. I would like to address them and other issues that have crept up over the past couple weeks.
<em>”…the real debates are not about frames–they are about fundamental policies.”</em>
Professor Robinson is right, the real debate is about [...]

Candidate vs. Opponent

by Nathan Pitman
Please read twice. The first time do not click on ANY links. the second time click on ALL links.
It seems incredible that in this day and age people continue to advocate for things which are going to put the rest of the country at a disadvantage.
Here we are in the 21st century, and [...]

“That one”… (you know, the black one)

A Polemical Essay by: That Girl
I’ll say this: I don’t think John McCain is racist. But he sure knows how to hang with the worst of them.
With a Bear Market currently mauling a little china shop known as the Global Financial System and McCain’s less than spectacular performance in demonstrating the urgency of [...]

The Last Month of Dirt, aka What Will Stick?

By: Jet Peterson

Now that we have reached the last month of the campaign season, the mud-slinging is increased.  The old claims and the old relations are being dug up to create a guilt by association. Barack Obama has been in associations with the domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. John McCain has associations with Keating. Both are [...]

How Does Fear Drive the Voters?

Fear is a tool that has been used by politicians and organization’s to sway the American people’s votes.  This tool has been used in televised political advertisements in the past and today.  The use of fear in political ads make them very memorable, and those memories can stay in the voter’s minds to Election Day.
     There is [...]

What will they think of next, again?

By Steven Dell

The poll numbers are slipping and what can he do about it. While you may think I am talking about John McCain I am actually referring to the public approval rating of George W. Bush. Recent opinion polls have him clocking in at a whopping 24% approval. To give you a [...]

“That one” might just clinch it for Obama

By Leonid Balaban
In tonight’s debate, McCain might have commited one of the biggest mistakes in the whole 2008 campaign by showcasing his absolute disdane for Sen. Obama and refering to him as “That one”. This debacle came about after McCain raised a question of
“Who voted against the 2005 so-called “Bush-Cheney Energy Bill” again?”  
“That one,” McCain [...]

The state of the 2008 Presidential campaign with 30 days to go

By Leonid Balaban

There is only a month left in what seems like a never ending 2008 Presidential election. A great number “earth shattering” political events took place since January 2007, and yet the last 30 days promise to be as interesting, exciting and exhilarating as the last 20 months have been.

Since the conclusion [...]