Impact from Endorsements?

I believe that endorsement for the candidate, does have an affect on voting behavior, especially in the primaries and for independent voters. The individuals with party identification has no influence by the endorsement unless it is in the primaries. For example, John Edwards, Ted Kennnedy, and Oprah Winfrey who endorsed Sen. Obama had a significat impact on voting behavior in the primaries. Hillary Clintion was very popular even before she'd enter the democratic presidential race, and i have never heard of Sen. Obama until he enter the race. During the Meet the Press on NBC, Colin Powell who endorse Obama does have an affect on independent voters because the fact that he is a conservative Republican. Also Joe Liberman endorsement might have an impact on voting behavior for the Republicans. Most of all i believe that the commentators have a significant influence on voting behaviors because thousands to millions of viewer who wants to understand politics can easily conceptualize what the commentators advocates. My analogy for endorsement influence are like the people who follow their parents, priests, and teachers voting for that candidate.

News Media Bias

I believe that fox news is probably the bias out of all the media industry and probably the most unfair. For example, on the title call "The Female Vote" there was a lady who was a guest on Fox News and a former supporter of Hillary, criticizing Obama on nothing that is appealing. I remember when i had a professor that showed us a documentary of about how Fox News was very corrupted and how they regulate and train theirs employees in a certain direction for and only conservatives. Back when i was in the air force ROTC, we were limit on channels to watch news in our lounge. We could only watch Fox News, and we could not watch CNN at all because it stands for communist news network. Though with my opinion, i believed that CNN is the fairest news of all

Foreign Policy in the Middle East

Sen. McCain advocates that Iraq is the central front against terrorism, and Iraq is to be consider as a pawn of Iran. He believes that the U.S. should support the Government of Iraq to become capable of governing itself. McCain anticipates if U.S. pull out troops in Iraq, then it will affect America in the future with a wider and far costlier war. Counterinsurgency is Sen. McCain's main objective to defeat them and win a war against terrorism. McCain and also Sen. Obama believes that the U.S. should be more aggressive towards Iran and Syria due to their behavior and support of terrorism. Sen. Obama wants to end the war in Iraq by withdrawing troops with the safest way and fastest ways as possible. After that, Obama plans to have a residual force that will conduct and fights against Al Qaeda in Iraq and train the Iraqi security forces to battle to opposition. I believe the two candidates has the same plan direction but I also believe that McCain wants to succeed in the Middle East. The war in Iraq already happened and is too late to withdraw, for else the American history repeats the lost to the Vietnam War.

Vice Presidential Debate

Gov. Palin was more appealing than Sen. Biden because the fact that Biden was more like a politician and answered the questions like a politician. He reminds me of John Kerry debate against George Bush in the 2004 election. Sarah Palin was more like her self, rather then trying to be a politician. John McCain's pick for his running mate was a good choice and a strategic choice. I liked it when Gov. Palin said, "I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people."